Re: [maemo-developers] Java on 770

2006-12-02 Thread Luis Montes
Michael Dominic Kostrzewa wrote: IMHO, part of the success[1] of mono is the fact that it uses (can use) Gtk almost natively. People who know Gtk can jump on the bandwagon instantly, benefiting from the C# object-oriented features without "losing" any C knowledge. Again, maybe I'm just not l

Re: [maemo-developers] Java on 770

2006-12-02 Thread Michael Dominic Kostrzewa
On Fri, 2006-11-24 at 15:08 +0200, ext Santtu Lakkala wrote: > Michael Dominic Kostrzewa wrote: > >> I find it more reasonable to port a Java widget toolkit to hildon, than > >> to create a wholly new toolkit. SWT can already use Gtk, so I guess it'd > >> mostly be porting the backend to use hildon

Re: garage upload policy Re: [maemo-developers] Java on 770

2006-11-27 Thread Ferenc Szekely
ext Frantisek Dufka wrote: > Just to clarify this, there is no policy that each package needs to have > project (and sources) in garage? Once I have one project may I upload > other (unrelated) packages? > Yes, you may. Currently there is no policy which would say otherwise. > I'm asking because

garage upload policy Re: [maemo-developers] Java on 770

2006-11-24 Thread Frantisek Dufka
Ferenc Szekely wrote: yes, this is all true. you need an account on garage first. then you need an invitation from us. you can always send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you'd like to have the upload rights. with this procedure we would like to ensure some level of quality, so we do some referenc

Re: [maemo-developers] Java on 770

2006-11-24 Thread klaus
Am 24 Nov 2006 um 15:08 hat Santtu Lakkala geschrieben: > Afaik there are no Gtk "bindings" per se. But there is IBM's swt > toolkit, that can use Gtk as a backend. If we just make Gtk bindings, we > lose quite a lot of the reasons to use Java in the first place. If we > have our own, product speci

Re: [maemo-developers] Java on 770

2006-11-24 Thread Santtu Lakkala
Michael Dominic Kostrzewa wrote: >> I find it more reasonable to port a Java widget toolkit to hildon, than >> to create a wholly new toolkit. SWT can already use Gtk, so I guess it'd >> mostly be porting the backend to use hildon widgets where applicable. > Hmm, I'm not sure what you mean. There i

Re: [maemo-developers] Java on 770

2006-11-24 Thread Ferenc Szekely
ext Murray Cumming wrote: > Currently the only way to upload packages to extras (previously contrib) > is to create a garage project. But that doesn't force you to use the svn > repository in garage or otherwise fork anyone's source code. > > If there's a better way to get packages into extras, I'

Re: [maemo-developers] Java on 770

2006-11-24 Thread Murray Cumming
On Fri, 2006-11-24 at 11:50 +0100, Koen Kooi wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Murray Cumming schreef: > > On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 18:02 +0200, Tommi Komulainen wrote: > >> On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 15:13 +0200, ext Tommi Komulainen wrote: > >>> * > >>> http://maemo.org

Re: [maemo-developers] Java on 770 (was: Unresolved issues (Week 46))

2006-11-24 Thread Michael Dominic Kostrzewa
BTW, we're doing some work/experimenting with the mono stack on 770. So, most likely C#/mono will be availible on 770 before Java is. This is thanks to the work done by lupus/Novell to get the vm working on arm. Also, getting java vm itself working is just the first step. It's not very usefull u

Re: [maemo-developers] Java on 770

2006-11-24 Thread Koen Kooi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Murray Cumming schreef: > On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 18:02 +0200, Tommi Komulainen wrote: >> On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 15:13 +0200, ext Tommi Komulainen wrote: >>> * >>> http://maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-developers/2006-November/006188.html >>> Ja

Re: [maemo-developers] Java on 770 (was: Unresolved issues (Week 46))

2006-11-24 Thread Murray Cumming
On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 18:02 +0200, Tommi Komulainen wrote: > On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 15:13 +0200, ext Tommi Komulainen wrote: > > * > > http://maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-developers/2006-November/006188.html > > Java on the 770 > > > > "Now that Java will be put under th

[maemo-developers] Java on 770 (was: Unresolved issues (Week 46))

2006-11-23 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 15:13 +0200, ext Tommi Komulainen wrote: > * http://maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-developers/2006-November/006188.html > Java on the 770 > > "Now that Java will be put under the GPL is there any plan (from > Nokia) to integrate it into the fi