classpath AWT -> gcj

Sat Jul 1 19:19:00 GMT 2000

Oskar Liljeblad wrote:
> I've been spending some time porting Classpath AWT to gcj.
> I have rewritten the JNI GTK peer to CNI, and made sure the
> java files compile with gcj.
>> As far as I know, my work will not be mergeable with libgcj
> because of the Classpath-AWT license issues. The complete
> work will still be LGPL, though - I hope.
>> At the moment, it is capable of running a test program displaying
> a top-level window with a button.

That sounds great!! I've been doing a little work on libgcj's AWT
recently (I'll probibly do a checkin in the next couple of days).
Getting libgcj's AWT going is going to take a while but I don't think
its a wasted effort - I'm starting with the JDK 1.3 API, where as
classpath only has a partial 1.1 implementation. Hopefully one day this
silly licencing buisness will be resolved and we can merge the libgcj
implementation back into classpath.
> Right now I'm just checking if there is any interest in the code.
> It would be nice if it could actually be merged with existing
> projects.

Yes!! Note that we ARE able to use classpath's GTK peer classes in
libgcj, so if you have written CNI versions of the GTK peers then these
will certainly be a valuable contribution.
regards
 [ bryce ]