Re: java-gnome bindings

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi all,

On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 00:06, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> He is currently restructuring the CVS and build structure to conform to
> the way the standard gnome bindings should be packaged and making sure
> the build system works for (native) gcj. I believe he could use help
> from people who are experienced with make and gcj/java files since the
> first gnome-bindings deadline is already in 10 days.
> 
> For more information on this effort see:
> http://java-gnome.sourceforge.net/
> http://www.gnome.org/start/2.5/bindings/
> 
> There is also a poll and some discussion on various gnome bindings at:
> http://www.gnomedesktop.org/pollBooth.php?pollID=50
> 
> And please join the mailinglist to help with the fun:
> http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=1522

For those that are not on that list yet attached is the proof that Mark
Howard has been working really, really hard on this. Please try this out
with your favorite VM/Compiler/Library combination. I tried with kaffe
(kjc) but it was not up to the job (missing --sourcepath), so I had to
use jikes. It does include natively compiled gcj libraries!

Sorry for pushing the java-gnome bindings a bit, but I think this is a
really nice thing to have for Gnome 2.5/2.6. And since I don't have that
much time myself I hope some people can poke a bit at it so that when
the first deadline (22 December) arrives the java-gnome hackers have a
good candidate release. That is kind of a hard deadline since it
determines which bindings will make it into the official Gnome Developer
Platform 2.6 release in March.

Cheers,

Mark

--- Begin Message --- Subject: [Java-gnome-developer] Java-Gnome 0.8.2rc1 Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 13:31:02 +0000 User-agent: Mutt/1.5.4i

Hello,
  I have spent yet more hours working on the build scripts this morning.
Most of the major problems should now be solved - install (and
uninstall) targets work right for all modules, including documentation
modules; libraries loading has been fixed, including an api version.

We now need people to give these a real good test. To make this easier,
I've used the new tarball building script and create 0.8.2rc1 tarballs.
I'm uploading them to http://java-gnome.sf.net/tmp/. 

The tarballs most urgently in need of testing are:
java-gnome-0.8.2rc1.tar.bz2 - The 'all-in-one' tarball. This is the one
we recommend people actually use
libgtk-java-0.8.2rc1.tar.bz2
libgnome-java-0.8.2rc1.tar.bz2
libglade-java-0.8.2rc1.tar.bz2
doc-core-java-0.8.2rc1.tar.bz2
doc-gnome-java-0.8.2rc1.tar.bz2
doc-glade-java-0.8.2rc1.tar.bz2
(the other tarballs are still under development. We have limited
resources, so will only propose that we can complete the above modules
for the gnome bindings release team (for now at least)).

Important Dates:
14/12 - Gnome 2.5.1 released
14/12 - Java-Gnome 0.8.2rc1 released

[16,17?]/12 - Java-Gnome 0.8.2 release
                0.8 maintenance moved to new 0.8 branch in cvs.
                0.9 development starts in cvs HEAD

20/12 - Java-Gnome 0.9.0 release
                - Ideally, this will compile with gnome 2.5.0 libraries, but not
                  fully support them.
(21/12) /me on vacation
22/12 - Gnome bindings tarball deadline

Remaining issues:
- Need to check separate tarballs (I've done a little testing, but
  mostly concentrated on the all-in-one tarball)
- Need to check that java-gnome is fully parallel installable. Should be
  ok for JVM version, but I'm not sure about gcj compiled.
- Do we want to make gcj native compiles optional with configure
  options? IMHO, making ppl build everything is a good idea - then
  they're more likely to try out the different options.
- (low priority) vte problems - need to check it

0.8.2rc1 release md5sums:
bc2b51b98bad3cc03a69c1878dffc9c6  java-gnome-0.8.2rc1.tar.bz2
de1f39f67bcfecdcb88600bd1274ca7f  libgtk-java-0.8.2rc1.tar.bz2
cdb69f0afc0f32d4644d1c9e7dd59058  libgnome-java-0.8.2rc1.tar.bz2
c071e2e1f096115d4374b4610356da6f  libglade-java-0.8.2rc1.tar.bz2
6804eb3469ddaf473685c42fdfc85668  libgconf-java-0.8.2rc1.tar.bz2
45106f509110fe99b59e1f26e9c1b3a0  libvte-java-0.8.2rc1.tar.bz2
30719abf224ca513de9b2d0aa64af753  libgtkhtml-java-0.8.2rc1.tar.bz2
1056ee4f4bdcefca707d1c625aaa779a  doc-core-java-0.8.2rc1.tar.bz2
caec1d7cea93af05e290945b30c57202  doc-gnome-java-0.8.2rc1.tar.bz2
3ef47a192924fbaf20dc52507740a302  doc-glade-java-0.8.2rc1.tar.bz2

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