Jan Schulz wrote:
Hallo Ean, * Ean Schuessler wrote:I certainly thought so. I'm ready to put a 1.1.3 release in shortly. I've corrected that stupid manpath problem in my rules file. I'll look over the NMU. Were uploads broken for a while?Can someone certify, that this kaffe version is able to run eclipse 2.1.x?
It runs it quite O.K. on my box, and rather fast. But you need to add the libswt-gtk.so directory to LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
The trouble is that you also need to do a bit of configuration, like setup Eclipse to use kaffe's rt.jar to build, etc, which may be a little hard for someone who's novice to both Java & Eclipse. I had problems getting Eclipse to use Kaffe as a Standard VM, maybe Mark Wielaard can help there, I've CC:ed him.
Give it a try and judge for yourself. It's not 100% stable, though, the log file shows that some things still break. But there is definitely a large improvement since 1.1.2.
BTW: is anyone still interested in this Proposal? Sometime ago I asked Stephan to include it in java-common (the tools), but I got no response. Should I package a seperate package and ask for a sponsor for it, so that I can start to send some patches?
I'm interested, as it would be an improvement over the current situation in my opinion. But I'm not a DD ;)
Btw, how did your conversation with JPackage guys end up? They seem to have some ideas in common with with debian-java, so I was wondering if a distribution independant Java application/library packaging effort would have a standing chance.
cheers, dalibor topic