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 […]
Sad to see Ranjit struggling with non-free proprietary software while there is so much Free Software available to help with what he is trying to accomplish. GNU Classpath class documentation currently only comes in HTML. But is generated using gjdoc which can also generate texinfo or raw xml. From that you can generate info, docbook, […]
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 […]
Robert Schuster made a show case page on the new developer.classpath.org wiki called ClasspathShowCase in which he shows some simple steps to convince people how much progress we have made in the last couple of years. Try it out today and get convinced. Everything he shows will be included in the upcoming releases of Fedora […]
Presentations Fosdem 2005 All presentations are now linked from http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/events/escape_fosdem05.html Vacation! I will be offline for a week! Yeah!
Photos of the GNU Classpath Fosdem 2005 meeting.