On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 02:37:23PM +0100, jan iversen wrote: > The utilities as such are standalone (l10n tools). it works if I set the > commandline options correct for the linker, so it is not a generic platform > issue. It is just a "pain in the neck" problem, when you try to make the > program easy supportable. > > The source cannot be ported to java because it is not really worth porting, > I am learning the old code (which is really old) and writing it new (after > discussions with among other juergen) and that could of course be done in > Java if preferred. > > There are two problems with using java.
The main problem is making Java a build environment prerequisite! (well, the rat scan and the script generating the source tar balls use ant, but don't mention them ;) ). Regards -- Ariel Constenla-Haile La Plata, Argentina
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