Hi, On Thursday 31 October 2002 12:15, Mark Wielaard wrote: > Has someone actually tried Rudolph with GNU Classpath?
Yes, it is running quite well here. But we replaced many native methods (all but 5) by Java code. Since Rudolph uses a proprietary interface, this replacement might be interesting for classpath. On the downside, our implementation diverged from Rudolph. > Also take into account that Wonka contains only the java.awt, > java.awt.event and java.awt.image packages. We have that and > java.awt.color, java.awt.datatransfer, java.awt.dnd, java.awt.dnd.peer, > java.awt.font, java.awt.geom, java.awt.im, java.awt.im.spi, > java.awt.image.renderable, java.awt.peer and java.awt.print. The > important advantage that Rudolph has is of course that the code that > they have actually works! Not only that but it also doesn't depend on GTK. I think it would be great to separate the top level graphics stuff from the low level peer classes by a common, well-defined interface. That way had three sets of peer classes (GTK-based, acunia framebuffer, jni framebuffer), but only one common set of top level classes, which are probably much more (I have to admit that personally, I don't have to do much with graphics). I expect that the sooner we agree on such a common layer, the fewer redundant work there is on the top level. > And please make sure that all arrangements between Acunia and the FSF > are made clear and public. The last deal that was done with respect to > the AWT code (with Transvirtual) was never communicated clearly and that > produced some tensions. (I am perfectly happy to let RMS try to get a > deal that is in the best interest of all free software users as long as > it is clear in the end what has been decided.) RMS for sure is the right person to do this. I had expected all agreements of the FSF to be made public and am surprised to read this wasn't the case with Transvirtual. Cheers, Andy. -- aicas GmbH * Hoepfner Burg /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Haid-und-Neu-Straße 18 * 76131 Karlsruhe \ / No HTML or RTF in mail http://www.aicas.com X No MS-Word in mail Tel: +49-721-663 968-24; Fax: +49-721-663 968-94 / \ Respect Open Standards _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath