Re: FreeMind and gcj [Re: Help needed on the Java policy]

[Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com>]

Eric Lavarde wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> Andrew Haley wrote:
> > I guess it depends on whether the program fails because a particular
> > runtime has bugs or because the program depends on something it shouldn't
> > use, such as com.sun.* classes.  We're pretty complete with respect to 
> > 1.4,
> > so I'd like to know what this problem actually is.
> Well, I suspect that the classpath team and associated do concentrate 
> their effort on the non-AWT/Swing classes because Apache/Server-classes 
> and Eclipse don't use them.

I think this will come as a terrible shock to those people who spent so
much time writing the GUI stuff.

> In short, FreeMind 0.7.1 (the one in unstable) starts very well with the 
> latest gcj, doesn't spit any error, but is completely unusable (and ugly).

Ah, OK, so we're talking about AWT bugs.  I admit I don't know very much
about that side of Classpath.

The notion that Classpath "doesn't care" about non-server applications
seems to be very common on this list.

Andrew.