Hi, I saw the following thread about F7 plans and noticed we don't have any goals for gcj/eclipse/swt/java-gnome/etc http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.advisory-board/1551 So here are some ideas, deadlines and dependencies that might be nice to look at for F7 for the various stacks that make up the fedora-devel-java world. Please reply if you are working on any of this, if I am saying something silly/wrong or if there are more stack/application issues that you think are important for F7. The "important dates" are: - January 23 - Test1 Development Freeze - February 20 - Test2 Development Freeze - March 15 - Test3 Development Freeze - Release in April Test2 is just before Fosdem. And since all features should be in by then, it would be nice to try and create a liveCD with all "our features" on it to show off at Fosdem (Feb 24/25, Brussel, Belgium). - 1.5 language & library support in gcj This seems to be the biggest and most intrusive upgrade. But starting this early seems like a very good idea. Upstream is cleaning up some last issues. And it needs lots of testing. Would be good if something can be cooked up for Test1. Needs help from gcc-toolchain people. - Separate libgcj-rpm. Would be really nice so we can update the core class libraries separate from the core gcc compilers. Should also help with updates/dependencies since libgcj provides the mozilla plugin now and the awt libraries depend on gtk+. Would be nice if this can be done before Test2 so we can test an upgrade. Again needs help from gcc-toolchain people. - java-gcj-compat The biggest issue with this, if the 1.5-stack goes through is that gjdoc isn't 1.5 safe. If we cannot easily update gjdoc, then maybe sinjdoc could be investigated as replacement. http://www.cag.lcs.mit.edu/~cananian/Projects/GJ/#sinjdoc (Do we also need updates for javap and javah replacements?) - eclipse/swt/rcp stack 3.2 seems already good to go, and 3.3 will not come out till the middle of 2007. Azureus, RSSOwl also already seem updated. Andrew Overholt already has written down some plans for the future: http://overholt.ca/wp/?p=76 Maybe some work can be done to support the JDWP work in libgcj to get a little debugging going? And it would be nice to make sure that the ecj from eclipse and that from the gcj 1.5-stack match up. - java-gnome There are some rumors about a upgrade/rewrite, but nothing concrete as far as I have seen. If there is a rewrite that might cause some extra work for applications like Frysk. - gcj-compiled DocBook toolchain It seems we have made lots of progress with FOP and Batik since the last discussion about this: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.documentation/4582 Does anybody know where we are with that at this time? Would be nice to coordinate with the fedora-docs-list if we can provide something. - jpackage. Does it make sense to upgrade all packages to jpp 1.7 if the 1.5-stack goes in? - OpenOffice 2.2 Listed here since it does have some parts written in java. 2.2 comes out end of February. Probably needs retesting with the gcj-stack. I don't know if there are new java language/library dependencies. Some things that would be nice, but that are probably a lot of work, maybe better left for Fedora *, unless someone volunteers of course! :) - OpenJDK Still lots missing. Hopefully at Fosdem we will learn a bit more about the encumberments and when which parts of the core libraries will be liberated fully. But it might be nice to see if javac could be packaged. Or maybe a brave soul make hotspot work with classpath? - PhoneME/CACAO/MIDPath/J2MEPolish The Micro Edition world seems to really have gotten a boost from the GPL release of PhoneME. A lot of this is pretty early access. But it would be nice to have parts of this supported to show that Fedora is also a nice platform to developer for java-based mobile devices. - JBoss application server, SEAM stack Not tried yet. Parts like tomcat are already packaged. If we can get the 1.5-stack going it makes sense to look at this a bit closer. Maybe other parts can be lifted from jpackage? - Netbeans I tried this recently, but it seems still very tight to the Sun java implementation and I was unable to fully start it up on the free stack. But some dependencies like JavaHelp have been liberated (gpl+exception) now (and entered jpackage recently). Also it isn't clear whether the current license (CDDL) is acceptable (it seems unacceptable to Debian). - JOGL and WW2D should work, but I haven't done any testing recently. - japitools should really be packaged and somehow be tied in with the build system so developers/packagers can get an easy overview of whether or not a library upgrade is binary compatible or not. I am sure there is a lot missing. And as you saw none of the items above have real deadlines or people responsible, etc. So please feel free to reply with corrections add those yourself :) Cheers, Mark -- fedora-devel-java-list mailing list fedora-devel-java-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-java-list
