On Sunday 03 August 2003 09:56, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > Jan Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hallo! > > Yo! > > > http://people.redhat.com/~jhealy/eclipse > > > > Seems that the debian gcj is also recent enough. Lets wait for the > > patches... I'm curently downloading the src.rpms to have a look > > inside... (none for gcj yet...) > > > > If eclipse can run on gcj, we can probably have all the other contrib > > java packages in main as well. Or is interpreter mode not enough? > > I think eclipse is in contrib because it needs (at the moment) j2sdk to > compile and j2re to run. If you are able to compile eclipse with jikes > and run it with kaffe or another free JVM, it could go to main.
But the whole point of the note to which you replied was that NOW it was possible to do everything with GCJ. Not only will you not need j2sdk or j2re but you will also not need jikes, kaffee or any other JVM. > > Eclipse build with ant and Stefan is working to move ant to main. > > > What will then be the policy for 'native compiled java binaries'? Name > > them differently? Just compile everything to native (if that > > works...)? > > It has been discussed a long time ago but I do not remember any > solution. > > I do not no nothing about C/ C++ yet and I don't know if the java > libraries can be compiled as .so and the class with the main methode can > be compiled to use the .so? If it's the case, does that mean we can > write a java library and compile it native (.so) and then, this library > could be used be other native applications??? If yes it sounds very > good, don't you think? > > > I must say that this sounds very good, but as far as I can tell about > > me, its going back to reading lots of manuals... when will learnig > > ever stop... > > NEVER!.. ;) I've got to learn C/C++, Perl (you remember dh_ant?!), and > some lisp because I love emacs too much! :-D > > Cheers, > > -- Arnaud Vandyck > http://alioth.debian.org/users/arnaud-guest/ > http://alioth.debian.org/developer/diary.php?diary_user=2781
