GCC 4.0.0 is released! That was a lot of fun. Don’t you love the smell of release panic. GCJ 4 is a very nice release. Even though it is now based on a two month old GNU Classpath. But thanks to Michael Koch people can enjoy a fresh core library in CVS. Hopefully some of […]
LWN has now freely published the GCJ 4 article. The intensity of the comments is a bit surprizing. Been talking a lot about licenses, communities, bridges and compromises. In Boston last year Dalibor and I had a little workshop around that same issue. The discussion slides ”The Free Software Community, the GPL, Compromising, Trust and […]
Compared to the Classpath boys Sisyphus had it easy. He, thanks, I guess, Boudewijn :) Happy to see Eric Anholt working on adding ActionScript to Swfdec using Mozilla SpiderMoneky (yes, Mozilla has a javascript engine written in the C and one in the java programming language [Rhino], both dual -licensed under the MPL and GPL). […]
Saw that people are using gcj to create a visual javascript editor using Rhino called Banteng. The RSS Reader demo is cool. It doesn’t depend on GCJ 4, you can actually use the last stable release of GCJ 3.x. My article about GCJ 4 was accepted by LWN. It even got a couple of nice […]
Interesting paper from the latest PyCon 2005 Pulling Java Lucene into Python: PyLucene As OSAF needed an open source text search engine library for its Python based project, Chandler, we made the following bet: what if we pulled together Java Lucene, GNU’s gcj Java compiler and SWIG to build a Python extension ? This paper […]
Saw that Caolan keeps a blog describing the OpenOffice.org 2 progress with gcj. He is seeing great speedup from gcj4 native compiled code, but the build times for some parts of OOo are enormous: Use gcj-dbtool during the build for gcj. This has a huge impact for me building multilanguage langpacks as helpcontent2 is a […]
Back next week. P.S. Ranjit see Evince for a free well integrated document viewer on GNU/Linux Gnome systems.
Dalibor published his Kaffe – Past, Present and Future presentation he gave during our Escape the Java Trap! Fosdem meeting. As people might remember there were some problems with his laptop at that time. So it is good to finally have the full text. Thanks Dalibor.
Sven de Marothy did it again. More and more stuff just works these days: Just a oneliner fix to GNU Classpath and one for the application itself (usage of com.sun class, sigh). Sven has more screenshots and build instructions.
We should have send this out earlier, but there was so much other stuff to do (Fosdem Meeting! and a little vacation). But it is finally done. The GNU Classpath 0.14 release announcement. The best thing about it is that we worked hard to get as much as possible merged with libgcj and kaffe for […]