Fedora's way forward

[Thomas Fitzsimmons]

On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 10:31 -0700, Tom Tromey wrote:
> >>>>> "Jason" == Jason L Tibbitts <tibbs at math.uh.edu> writes:
> 
> Jason> As I understand things, Red Hat has someone dedicated to
> Jason> gcjwebplugin.
> 
> Yes, that's true.  Gary is working on the security audit, starting
> with writing test cases and fixing all places in the class library
> which require a call into the security manager.  (There are other
> tasks after this one...)
> 
> Jason> Hopefully gcjwebplugin will be folded into classpath in the near
> Jason> future and development will accelerate.
> 
> Yeah, that's the plan.  I think Michael Koch wanted one
> browser-crashing bug to be fixed before merging it all into Classpath.

Yes, and I fixed it yesterday.  I expect gcjwebplugin to be merged into
GNU Classpath within a few weeks.

> gcj imports classpath on a fairly regular basis.  I'd expect the web
> plugin code to be in GCC 4.2, though whether it is enabled depends on
> the security situation.
> 
> Jason> The last estimate I saw for a usable gcjwebplugin was six
> Jason> months.

Yes, we're aiming to have gcjwebplugin in Fedora Core 6.

Tom