Re: Kaffe, Kore and Japhar
Re all,
I have a functioning (but sloppy) Kaffe package built and am in the
process of cleaning it up and getting my key signed (yes, this is my
first package... so shame on all of you for putting up with my
unfounded non-developer whining up until now) so that I can place
it in Incoming.
Tim is currently in Belguim so he is a little out of pocket. When he
returns he is threatening to turn loose his entire 1.1 compatible class
set (including AWT) all under the GPL. Hooray! Tim has asked if we will
collude in getting him a little press coverage by making sweeping
announcements like "The Debian Project adopts Kaffe as their official
Java-bytecode-compatible solution" and other nonsense. Since Kaffe is
the only real DFSG compatible solution and Tim has long suffered under
the heel of the oppressor I said we would see what we can do.
So, there it is.
E
On Sat, Jun 27, 1998 at 11:31:45AM -0700, Jim Pick wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> A long time ago (over a year ago), I told the list and Vincent
> Renardias that I'd pick up the kaffe package, with the intent of
> trying to make it work with the "kore" class libraries so we could
> have something of a free Java implementation in main.
>
> Unfortunately, I never got it together and put together a package for
> it. Since then, Tim Wilkinson (the author of Kaffe) has started
> TransVirtual, and is developing his own set of class libraries. I
> haven't been following the news about kaffe lately, so I'm not sure
> what the status of that is. Ean Schuessler is more on top of the
> kaffe situation than I have been.
>
> When Japhar came out, I also volunteered to take that over (again,
> with the hopes of combining it with kore). Again, I never got it
> together and there is no Debian package.
>
> I really haven't done anything with Java in the past year, and I
> probably won't touch it in the near future, so I've come to the
> conclusion that I'm probably not the right guy to do these rather time
> consuming packages.
>
> So I'm offering them up for adoption again (even though I never put
> them out).
>
> Sorry about delaying things this long. I'm a bit embarrassed that I'm
> so busy that I had to do this. :-(
>
> Cheers,
>
> - Jim
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