Dalibor arrived in Stuttgart (08:00 good morning).
Lots of excitement after the Eclipse talk yesterday. People were really interested in the various plugins. The fact that Andrew had a powerbook with a native ppc version of Eclipse made some people really happy. The bugzilla plugin attracted interest. And people were even saying they would drop emacs [...]
Andrew and Ben gave a great performance. The The Eclipse IDE and you talk was really inspiring. People were clearly excited to check it out. Lots of specific suggestions for improvements to make it a really great Free Software hacking tool. Looking forward to Ben and Andrew Cowie their talk about java-gnome tomorrow (also using [...]
Guadec: 29 – 31 May, Stuttgart – Germany
The Eclipse IDE and you
Ben Konrath and Andrew Overholt
Eclipse, Java-GNOME, and GCJ
Andrew Cowie and Ben Konrath
6th International Free Software Forum (fisl): June 1 – 4, Porto Alegre/RS, Brazil
Encontro Javali: Escape the Java Trap: Classpath and Kaffe, Implementing the Java Standards GNU Style
Dalibor Topic and Mark Wielaard
LinuxTag: 22 – [...]
Where is the Harmony?
Things like the bad competition between KDE and GNOME is what keeps me interested in the harmony project. There is also good competition between these projects. And I do hope Harmony can be what freedesktop.org is for the larger free software desktop community. That is what we have always tried to [...]
Thanks for the great gift Julian! GNU gjdoc 0.7.5. Updated GNU Classpath (CVS) docs at http://developer.classpath.org/doc/
Free AWT hackers observe and learn: Eclipse on SWT/GTK+ Performance Notes
Hurd-Gnome! Keep on rocking. Keep on hacking. Wow.
Roman checked in Kim Ho’s implementation of JFileChooser. And our Free Swing implementation is actually looking better and better each day. Quick screenshot of the new JFileChooser and jedit (main window, file system browser and search/replace dialog) in action (jamvm 1.3.0 + GNU Classpath CVS + cairo 0.3.0):
Sweet. (But no, jedit isn’t actually usable yet [...]
Found on the harmony mailinglist:
> we recommend they start to contribute by submitting Classpath patches (which we could kindly call “Classpatches” :-)
Well, since Apache was “a patchy server” this would not be quite out of league :)
The Auto-vectorization with gcj looks exciting. If this can be made to work for java source files (and it looks like it is almost there already) then we will see some very nice speedups. Auto-vectorization in GCC has some examples in C and Fortran that GCC supports now. There is also the GCC Autovectorization Enhancements [...]
Finally some nice press about our OpenOffice/GCJ community work. GCJ is now also mentioned on the OpenOffice.org homepage. Please help out if you can.
Taking a little time off-line. I’ll be back answering email after the weekend.
Just got a thank you email from Richard Stallman about our progress with OpenOffice 2.0 and GCJ 4 for both communities. The FSF has also updated the text at http://www.fsf.org/news/open-office-java.html to better reflect our current status:
Volunteers needed to build, test and package free OpenOffice 2.0
The FSF is looking for volunteers to build, test and packagefully [...]
How to take the fun out of someones achievement
Uraeus post made me sad. It was an hectic week, but is seems our Harmony effort is already a success. planet.classpath.org saw a record number of visitors, the irc channel has been full of interested people and after some discussions back and forth it seems that everybody [...]
Posted some thoughts on how GNU Classpath hackers can help Harmony.
Sven then did a little dance!
These guys are cool, and by cool I mean totally sweet.
Yes, that announcement wasn’t really well coordinated.
But I tried to make my views clear on the mailinglist.
Please read and enjoy. I just don’t have much time this weekend, but I do hope this will work out great.
Update: Posted about Harmony! to the GNU Classpath mailinglist. With links to:
The State of World by Tom Tromey.
GNU Classpath [...]
The latest numbers from David Gilbert about GNU Classpath and Mauve progress are in (yes, I am behind on email):
Also forgot to mention that GNU Classpath 0.15 was released last week.
Optimized nio and nio.charset plus io streams integration leading to large speedups in character stream performance. To complement this new framework a native [...]
Happy news for those following the OpenOffice.org 2.0 melodrama. Caolan made the new document Writer wizards working under gcj. He also has a list of bugs, patches and feature requests needed for better support.
We might soon need a bigger planet! Thomas Fitzsimmons now has a blog that is aggregated on planet.classpath.org. Welcome Tom! And Mark Howard got a fresh new blog. He had an old blog on the planet earlier, but I somehow missed his movement announcement. Sorry Mark.
If you are reading this on the planet please [...]