SwingWT and libgcj (was Re: Making shared objects with GCJ)

Thu Jun 10 14:55:00 GMT 2004

> As for how people would feel about switching between
> a SwingWT and a FSF implementation where both options are available,
> you've given some compelling arguments that I hadn't thought about.

I think it would certainly be interesting - and very nice to have the
choice. I think if we could get a lot of interesting free stuff packaged 
up into a neat box (the Kaffe project seems particularly good in
this regard as they are incorporating embedded AWT libs and all sorts of
clever bits and pieces), it could help a lot in attracting Java developers 
to the free platforms.
> Personally, I tend to steer away from political stuff 

Me too - I'd rather be coding, but I'm glad there are people out there
who I consider "on my side" who do care about the political side of
things.
> I'm grateful for SwingWT for all the reasons you mentioned.

You kidding? Thanks to your GCC distribution I don't get "Dude, tell
me how to build native Swing apps on Windows?" questions in my mail any
more!
Cheers,
Rob
P.S. I don't know if this is the right list (is there a Mauve list?),
but I wrote a Mauve bridge for JUnit as part of SwingWT that means as we
add SwingWT unit tests, they can be incorporated into Mauve to test the
Classpath implementation of Swing. Don't know if anyone's interested
in this. (I did it because I like how Mauve does stuff over JUnit, but
JUnit has better integration with ant and I need to do some funky
stuff with the classpath during testing of SwingWT that I couldn't do
with Mauve).
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