Fedora Core 3
W. Michael Petullo
mike at flyn.org
Fri Jul 9 15:29:46 UTC 2004
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>> 2. Free software Java applet plugin for epiphany, Firefix, etc. It
>> seems that gcjwebplugin will be the candidate eventually.
> Unfortunately, we can't ship gcjwebplugin and gcjappletviewer with
> Fedora Core 3 in their current form because they haven't been audited
> for security. However, I'm wondering if there is some way of using
> existing security infrastructure to limit gcjappletviewer's
> capabilities. That way we could at least ship a feature-limited version
> so that people could experiment with trusted applets.
>> 3. Gcc-java compiled with "--enable-java-awt=gtk." I'd like to start
>> testing gcj's AWT implementation.
> Yes, this seems doable. I'll push to have the GTK peers included in the
> next Fedora release.
I added two bugs to Bugzilla to track these two RFIs:
127534, [RFI] Compile libgcj with --enable-java-awt=gtk
and
127537, [RFI] Inclusion of gcjwebplugin or other Open Source Java applet
plugin
--
Mike
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