[fedora-java] FC6 gcj notes

[Anthony Green]

A few random FC6 gcj comments...

I'm not sure if this has been mentioned on the list at all, but since
FC6 will be shipping with GCC 4.1.x, a decision has been made to
backport all the great GNU Classpath/libgcj work from GCC HEAD into the
FC6 4.1.x branch. Among other things, this means we'll also get
gcjwebplugin. 

The whitelist dialog box in gcjwebplugin is pretty intimidating.  I was
wondering if we could add a button to it that would pop up a Fedora wiki
page in a browser explaining the situation a little better to newbies.
I'd be willing to write the page if somebody could add the button.


FE now contains all of the dependencies for the MIDI synthesizer
providers I wrote (dssi, jack-audio-connection-kit, etc).  I'm not
willing to bet we can pull these into Core.  Should I extract those
providers from GNU Classpath and make an FE package out of them?


Having Eclipse 3.2 in FC6 is awesome.  I am able to remove a number of
SWT patches from azureus and rssowl now that we have SWT 3.2.
However...
I can't optimize Azureus because of this:
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19505
RSSOwl won't run because of this:
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27271

Are there any other pet bugs that need to be fixed before FC6?


Karsten hasn't been asking me about FOP for a long time.  I wonder if
that means the Fedora docs guys have moved on to a different PDF
solution.  I suspect that FOP will run with the FC6 gcj.  Any reason to
believe otherwise?

AG