----- Original Message ----- > On 03/08/2014 03:37 AM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 9:32 AM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > >>> > >>> Sorry I am missing something. Why can't we keep the old pdftk that > >>> works with itext2? > >> > >> Check the whole thread - because of GCJ dependency. iText is second > >> issue. The first could be fixed by rewrite of offending part of code > >> to Java but someone would have to do it first. That's how I understand > >> this situation. > >> > > > > The only things I read in the thread are "GCJ is abandoned" and "we > > really want to get rid of GCJ". Am I supposed to come to the > > conclusion that the GCJ package is dropped from Fedora? If so, where > > is this decision made? Why was it made without consulting GCJ users? > > The problem is more to do with upstream maintainership. If GCJ is to > be used in the future it needs to be updated to a current version of > the Java class library, but that's a lot of work. GCJ is still a > pretty good compiler for the Java language, but it's stuck at JDK5 > (ish). > > Andrew. > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct And JDK5 might be good enough for the use required. It doesn't claim to be anything more than that, so I don't see the harm in leaving it there. -- Andrew :) Free Java Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) PGP Key: 248BDC07 (https://keys.indymedia.org/) Fingerprint = EC5A 1F5E C0AD 1D15 8F1F 8F91 3B96 A578 248B DC07 -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
