Sascha Brawer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can also use an unfree Java implementation (such as Apple's JDK > 1.3 on MacOS X) to develop packages for Classpath. Of course only > as long as you only use public APIs, and never ever decompile or > even look at the sources.
It's the one of IBM. But in this case, I prefer to use the debianized Blackdown version (I am on Debian-ppc). > > If someone can help, I'd be very interresting in contributing. > > Thanks a lot! (I'm not a maintainer, but nobody else has said this > so far...) :-) > >-- arnaud :: http://vbstefi60.fapse.ulg.ac.be/~arnaud/ > > What package would you like to work on? > > Looking at your web page, I could imagine you might be interested in > the javax.xml.* tree, or (because of your SVG links) javax.print > with an SVG StreamPrintService. But of course, you'd be welcome to > do anything! Well, Sascha, yes, but I am not a guru! Not a C, C++, Assembly guru and neither a Java guru, I just have the J2 programmer certification and trying to pass the dev certification, but I did not study computers at University! Maybe I can begin with some documentation and why not a javax.* package. What is needed? What is the task on the top of the todo list for a new (beginner and) "helper"? For clarification: Mark Wielaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The easiest is to use gcj with libgcj. This works perfectly on PPC. > libgcj is based on GNU Classpath but a lot of merging work is still > needed. (See http://gcc.gnu.org/java/libgcj-classpath-compare.html) > Note that libgcj takes a lot of time (and disk space) to compile. > It is certainly not the nicest platform to do quick write, run, > debug cycles if you are hacking on the core libraries. Compiler > Kissme <http://kissme.sf.net/> is known to work on PPC with Classpath > and is easier to use. But the PPC support is not very well tested yet. > I got it running once, but have not yet done anything more then Hello > World with it. See for some issues I had then (that might already be > solved): <http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=2007709> Runtime (JVM) > > I have a Blue G3 at home with Debian GNU/Linux (sarge) and there is a > > package named 'orp-classpath' but it seems like orp is not available > > for ppc. > > I have a PowerMac G3/233 running Debian GNU/Linux (woody, but with a > newer binutils to work with gcj from CVS, I believe sarge is newer then > woody so you should be good to go). I saw that there is now a Debian > kissme and sablevm package at least for x86. You might want to ask the > package maintainers if they can try to create a PPC version. I saw these packages but did not try to install on the G3. I'll check the Debian's bts and maybe fill a 'which' bug. > > If someone can help, I'd be very interresting in contributing. > > Great! Let us know how it goes. Setting up Classpath plus VM is > sadly non-trivial and using a PPC machine makes it especially > interesting. But we would of course like your help. Anthony Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's not so bad if you can do your development outside of libgcj. > For instance, many new packages can be developed outside of libgcj > and then merge it in when you're happy (like a new javax.* package). > You can also avoid native compilation and link times by testing with > gij. So maybe the first step would be to contribute even with a non-free implementation of a jdk as Sascha and Anthony suggest. When contribution is ok, I'll try to test it with gcj (for compilation) and kissme (for runtime) as Mark suggest. Am I right? Any other suggestions are welcome. I'll check <http://savannah.gnu.org/pm/task.php?group_id=85&set=custom&advsrch=0&group_project_id=0&_assigned_to=0&_status=1&SUBMIT=Browse> to know where I can help, or maybe someon can suggest. For the javax.xml.* packages, I thought AElfred's API was donated? Thanks to everybody for welcome and suggestions. -- arnaud :: http://vbstefi60.fapse.ulg.ac.be/~arnaud/ _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath
