Query about Help Needed

Mon Apr 2 19:12:00 GMT 2001

Nic Ferrier wrote:
> >Before starting to think about such an implementation, I
> >would definitively want to suggest to clear the wanted
> >packaging of such software. Bryce already mentioned
> >that the security package get's quite large. I guess the
> >extensions will be large, too. So the questions rise:
> >should the extensions be supplied in a separate package?
> >Should a gcj configurator (someone who does run the
> >configure script) be able to select from a set of packages?
>> Please see my message to the Classpath list about the OJE project.
>> IMHO there is *no* reason for the GCJ project to host the effort to
> produce *all* the javax libs. GCJ should do what it does with the java
> libs, import them from another project.
>> This is especially true since most javax projects are pure Java, with
> no need to be tied to the GCJ platform particularly.

The "javax libs" collection should definitely be a separate package, for
all the reasons mentioned: GCJ's libjava is big enough already and
probably should remain a small "core" java library where possible, and
they ought to be useable on other Java environments than just GCJ.
Also, if the javax libs collection is to be as big and comprehensive as
possible, we'd want to avoid the FSF-assignment requirement and be able
to include free but not necessarily GNU implementations of some of the
packages. I think its reasonable to assume that authors of some of the
existing free javax implementations may not want to sign their copyright
over to the FSF.
regards
 [ bryce ]