On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 06:16:39PM +0000, Cameron Berkenpas wrote: > I used to work for Transvirtual, the firm responsibly for kaffe. I > personally, several times, asedk them about PowerPC support. They > seemed interested, but whenever I tried mentioning we should get some Macs > for development, they lost interest.
I'm a core team member of Kaffe (kaffe.org). Even if Transvirtual had released there Custom Edition to open source last summer (tvt-kaffe), Open Edition (kaffe.org) is not dead and Debian use it. Merge process of these two releases is not yet started. Last time I announce that I have start this process, TVT ask me to delay this task as Peter is rewriting AWT subsystem (the first part I want to merge). For now, tvt-kaffe have improvements but org-kaffe have too, as iconv(), Alpha JIT for OSF/1 (expect GNU/Linux Alpha soon), PowerPC, Irix 6.4 (interpreter only), BigDecimal... Tim and I expect a merge of tvt and org but it seems to me that TVT are focused on PocketLinux :-( Missing Kaffe for Debian PowerPC is more or less a Debian maintainer attidute as kaffe-1.0.6 work on PowerPC with libffi. And last summer, one day after release, Kevin B. Hendricks submited a native PowerPC version of syscallMethod to get ride of libffi. Since then, Kaffe works on GNU/Linux PowerPC. BTW, did you see my mail on this list about instaling Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and NetBSD on same iBook ? Yes, I will switch from Intel to PowerPC, with writing PowerPC JIT in mind :-) tvt-kaffe vs org-kaffe is more or less like FreeBSD vs NetBSD :-) -- Edouard G. Parmelan http://egp.free.fr
