Re: Imagej group maintenance?

[Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de>]

On Wed, 28 May 2008, Paolo Ariano wrote:

> in this period i'm little busy preparing a lot of lessons (ocular
> phisiology) :( so i'm not able to manage imagej new features/bugs

Thanks for the quick response.  It is a good habit to keep us informed
about time constraints, so we know what to do ...

> but i
> wrote to the only person who tried to compile image with gcj and the
> answer i've received is pasted at the end.
>
> hope this help

It would be helpful together with the e-mail address of this person
to be able to comment on these hints.

> ************************************************************************
>
> Warning: it's not worth it.

Hmmm, this probably needs some explanation ...

> Warning 2: the following notes are from June 2006, with gcj6, and ij137
>
> Here are my notes to help you get started. Good luck.
>
> - remove any ocurrrence of the string ';;' (since gcj chokes) in source
> code

Seems like this would have been solved because ';;' occures in 27 files
which at least does not cause ERRORs.

> - fix text encoding oddities where gcj chokes (may have changed with
> latest ij.jar src)

Seems to be solved as well.

> - disable JPEG support at ij/plugin/JpegWriter.java, involving
> JPEGImageEncoder class, or delete the ij/plugin/JpegWriter.java file.

This is interesting.  I have no idea how important JPEG might be for
imagej usage (normally I'm hesitant to disable a major image format in
an image viewer ...)

Kind regards

          Andreas.

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