On 03/19/2014 10:59 PM, Andrew Hughes wrote: > ----- 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). > > 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. Speaking as the upstream maintainer, I do. Andrew. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
