Re: guavac, kaffe, kore, a free java development environment?

[Vincent Renardias <vincent@waw.com>]

On Fri, 21 Nov 1997, Ben Armstrong wrote:

> I am not yet a guavac user, but I plan to do some Java development
> for Linux (GPL'd of course), so I will end up being one sooner or later.
> 
> And that raises a concern ... I don't want my work to depend on non-free
> components.  I see that while guavac is DFSG compliant, kaffe is not.  On
> examining kaffe closer, it is because it depends on the non-free jdk.  I'm
> wondering what could be done to make it depend on Kore instead?  It seems
> Kore isn't even packaged yet.  Is it still too rough to be building on top
> of?

Last time I had a look at it (months ago), kore was still too incomplete
to replace jdk classes. But if it's now mature, feel free to package it.


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