Hi, On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 10:39, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > > RHUG: http://sources.redhat.com/rhug/ really is cool. The only sad > > thing is that it is all build as RPMs done for RedHat systems. Would > > be really nice to also have real Debian packages of all his stuff. (I > > asked him if he would like someone to maintain debian dirs/control > > files for RHUG and he would definitely appreciate that.) > > It's impressing!
Cool isn't it. I believe it is one of those public secrets that somehow nobody hears about. The fact that most of it is only available through CVS as source doesn't help to promote it much. But the gcj compiled libraries and programs are so darn fast. They recently added a natively compiled Eclipse compiler (called ecj) and the binary is faster then the jikes compiler when producing byte code from java source files! But there are now a couple of people who are trying to push some of this in Red Hat their new Severn (open public community Red Hat distribution) project. That would be really cool. But I don't really like switching from my trusty and proven distribution. So I try to push a bit for Debian packages. Maybe I should apply to be a Debian Maintainer and go through the whole process if nobody else picks this up... > I do not know the ant internals but why not investigating in 'ant task' > for gcj (maybe it already exists!) instead of autoconf/ automake/ make? Anthony Green (the RHug maintainer) recently suggested to do this. Traditional GNU people don't like Ant that much, but it is clear that traditional java people don't like the auto* and libtool approach that much. It must certainly be possible to come up with a real Ant task that takes the information already available to create sources to classes plus jars and Manifest files and turn it into the right invocations to gcj to build shared librararies and/or native compiled programs. Cheers, Mark
