[Pkg-java-kaffe] Re: Kaffe in testing and futur plans

[Dalibor Topic]

Arnaud Vandyck wrote:
> [Cc'ing Jim Pick]

> Well, the problem is there is a huge progress between the kaffe version
> in testing and the one in the cvs head.

Yes ;) GNU Crypto just got merged in, and the Jessie implementation, as 
well as the pure java non-blocking DNS code from dnsjava. That's enough 
for today, so I'm off to bed, after successfully breaking the build with 
kjc again [1] ;)

Swing is still on my list for this week, probably tomorrow. I'll take 
care of making a 'make dist' for testing.

> Also, I've just talked with Jim Pick who told me he'll drop the 1.1.5
> tag and re-tag later. So cvs head will be 1.1.5

That's the plan. And I hope CVS head stabilizes enough to be worthy 
being called 1.1.5 ;) But we're not there yet: there are a few issues to 
fix with x86-64, ia64, arm, a few build problems, make dist is currently 
slightly b0rked, a few patches to flush from the queues (awt, mips, 
class lib stuff, threaded intrp), etc. I hope this one will run tomcat 5 
fine (seems to do so atm), ant 1.6.2 etc, and be useable as a foundation 
stone for java support in sarge.

> I'll upload an up-to-date release from the cvs head in experimental
> tomorrow, I propose we wait Jim or Robilad to re-tag 'stable' or at
> least 'ok for development'.

It may take a few more weeks 'till everything is merged in and everyone 
is happy. We'll see. It's done when it's done well ;)

cheers,
dalibor topic

[1] Which has been already fixed by the amazing Guilhem. Amazing.