On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Andrew Haley wrote: > Andrew Overholt wrote: >> * Andrew Haley [2009-02-02 07:45]: >>> Andrew Overholt wrote: >>>> Can anyone with CNI experience please help with this bug? I have heard >>>> of lots of people using pdftk and it would be nice if it was available >>>> in Fedora. >>> Well, I understand CNI well enough but I can't understand what the problem >>> is supposed to be. >> >> I'll try to explain it as I understand it: >> >> - pdftk is compiled by gcj using the C++ ABI, direct to native code >> - iText is compiled to bytecode (and GCJ AOT .sos) >> - pdftk used to bundle its own copy of iText; this isn't allowed by Fedora >> - pdftk needs iText to provide a C++-style .so for linking > > OK, so all we need is a version of iText that is suitable for CNI. Is there > any reason not to add a subpackage of iText which provides such a thing? > Apart from the effort of doing it, I mean; I just wonder if there is any > technical reason why not. > No, there's no other reason. I asked for this many times and nobody with CNI knowledge was willing to do it. As I stated before, I will be glad to give comaintainership in pkgdb to anyone who wants to show the effort. By the way, again as I stated before, itext needs bouncycastle, bouncycastle-mail, pdf-renderer and dom4j. So those will probably need to be CNI'ed as well. I'm the maintainer of the first 3 and can grant comaintainership for them, but not for dom4j. Orcan -- fedora-devel-java-list mailing list fedora-devel-java-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-java-list
