Re: [Libreoffice] LibreOffice and Java

2010-11-03 Thread Michael Meeks
On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 07:50 -0600, Tor Lillqvist wrote: > Another even wilder idea would be to translate the Java bytecode > to .NET bytecode for the Windows case... I suspect at this point the external pundits start screaming all at once ;-) So - I would prefer using python, or native

Re: [Libreoffice] LibreOffice and Java

2010-11-03 Thread Jani Monoses
On 11/03/2010 04:06 PM, Caolán McNamara wrote: On Tue, 2010-11-02 at 14:30 +0100, Cedric Bosdonnat wrote: On Tue, 2010-11-02 at 12:47 +, Michael Meeks wrote: Quite; cf. such uncertainty - it probably makes considerable sense to look into a migration strategy from Java to (insert any

Re: [Libreoffice] LibreOffice and Java

2010-11-03 Thread Tor Lillqvist
> Rather than clumsily trying to convert Java->.net/mono I would > rather allow to have people write in those languages in the first place. Sure. I was dreaming (having nightmares?) of converting compiled Java class files to .NET assemblies... The source code for them would thus still continue

Re: [Libreoffice] LibreOffice and Java

2010-11-03 Thread Caolán McNamara
On Tue, 2010-11-02 at 14:30 +0100, Cedric Bosdonnat wrote: > On Tue, 2010-11-02 at 12:47 +, Michael Meeks wrote: > > Quite; cf. such uncertainty - it probably makes considerable sense to > > look into a migration strategy from Java to (insert anything else). Some > > candidates might be pyt

Re: [Libreoffice] LibreOffice and Java

2010-11-03 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
On Wed, 03 Nov 2010 07:50:08 -0600, "Tor Lillqvist" wrote: > Another even wilder idea would be to translate the Java bytecode to .NET > bytecode for the Windows case... There are some tools, more or less > experimental, for this, aren't there? Would it not be better to just require > the .NET fr

Re: [Libreoffice] LibreOffice and Java

2010-11-03 Thread Tor Lillqvist
> What about the existing Java extensions? Quite a lot of people are using > Java to either writer extensions or use UNO Java bridge from an external > application. How hard would it be to do AOT compilation of the Java bytecode of such extensions (and the needed JRE and OOo/LO glue classes), and

Re: [Libreoffice] LibreOffice and Java

2010-11-02 Thread Cedric Bosdonnat
On Tue, 2010-11-02 at 12:47 +, Michael Meeks wrote: > Quite; cf. such uncertainty - it probably makes considerable sense to > look into a migration strategy from Java to (insert anything else). Some > candidates might be python for the more scripty pieces (though I hate > non-typed langua

Re: [Libreoffice] LibreOffice and Java

2010-11-02 Thread Michael Meeks
On Tue, 2010-11-02 at 10:29 +, Caolán McNamara wrote: > Hmm, yeah, that's true. I believe this is due to uncertainty around the > various clauses in the Redistribution text in the stock Java licence, so > safest option was not to redistribute it as part of the stock windows > installer bundle.

Re: [Libreoffice] LibreOffice and Java

2010-11-02 Thread Caolán McNamara
On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 01:50 +0200, Cesare Leonardi wrote: > Hi all. > > There's a thing not clear to me and that involved go-oo too: the > relationship between LibreOffice and Java. Here i'm referring to the > Windows environment but under Linux/Mac should be the same. > > Java isn't provided w

Re: [Libreoffice] LibreOffice and Java

2010-10-20 Thread Constantin Makshin
AFAIK, Java is optional and is used to extend core LO functionality. Are the warnings you get related to Java-based extensions? If yes and you're on Windows, there's a thread with a suggestion to improve the LibreOffice installer http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2010-October/0006

[Libreoffice] LibreOffice and Java

2010-10-19 Thread Cesare Leonardi
Hi all. There's a thing not clear to me and that involved go-oo too: the relationship between LibreOffice and Java. Here i'm referring to the Windows environment but under Linux/Mac should be the same. Is it Java a requirements or it is considered an optional component? If Java isn't installe