Fun stuff to play with this weekend: Fedora 7 Fully free 1.5 java programming language stack: $ gcj –version gcj (GCC) 4.1.1 20070105 (Red Hat 4.1.1-51) Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A […]
Somehow I had missed JaLiMo (shame on me, it is sponsored by Tarent and Robert Schuster is also working on it) which provides free java stacks for maemo and openmoko, based on Cacao, JamVM, GNU Classpath, java-gnome and MIDPath. They will give a talk at LinuxTag titled Java-Linux-Mobile Platform. Wish I could go. Or better, […]
Eben Moglen spoke at the Red Hat Summit last week. Imagine a party who engages in recurrent threats every summer time for years on end. On a sort of annual Be Very Afraid tour. I know it sounds absurd. Imagine now that what happens is that the annual Be Very Afraid tour starts creating terrible […]
That was one fun week! It was so great to meet Dalibor Topic, Casey Marshall, David Daney, Tom Tromey and Tom Fitzsimmons who feel like old friends even though we really only meet and work together virtually. OpenJDK is now in full swing and Sun put up a great show at JavaOne. We were all […]
I am at JavaOne now where the OpenJDK source drop was announced and Dalibor got onto the governance board. It is a madhouse here. Lots of fun. Congrats to all the Sun people for making all this happen. Hope we will be able to clear the last encumberments really quick.
Noteworthy changes are: The Java compatible environment in main (gij/gcj) was updated to provide Java 1.5 compatibility, allowing now packages in main, which require 1.5 compatibility and can be built using gcj. Nice job Matthias!
Getting package source and debug info isn’t always as transparent on Fedora as I would like. But there is yum-utils that provides yumdownloader which can get packages given that you know the source package name (is there an easy way to find that out/automate that?). yumdownloader –enablerepo=core-source –source gcc (don’t forget that you have to […]
Jim Huang did it! On the same day we released GNU Classpath 0.95 he got it working with Cacao on the OpenMoko to give it a free java stack. Go Jim! OpenMoko and OLPC are really exciting developments. Finally fully open hardware combined with Free Software to make them do precisely what you want. World […]
This release adds some serious jazz: Full merge of 1.5 generics work. Bootstrappable with OpenJDK javac compiler. URLConnection timeout support. TimeZone can use platform zoneinfo file when available. The Collection classes, lang.management and util.spi have been updated to 1.6. Addition of 1.6 ServiceLoader. Speedup for cairo and freetype Graphics2D support. The ASM library is now […]
Dalibor is always much more eloquent than I am. He made the core observation that explains my (and I know from discussions on irc a lot of other people) double feeling about the “open letter” that Geir send to Sun in a recent thread on the GNU Classpath mailinglist. In principle I am for an […]