Re: [GridBagLayout] Orientation- & Baseline-relative GridBagConstraints.anchor not implemented?

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17.04.2015, 01:06, "Andrew Hughes" <gnu.andrew@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> ----- Original Message -----
>>  BTW, Andrew, when I am reading the requirements for contributing to GNU
>>  Classpath, I remember that Sun has released Java under the GPL:
>>  https://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-welcomes-gpl-java.html
>>
>>  So, do we still need to implement the orientation- & baseline-anchor
>>  behaviors from scratch instead of simply taking Sun's GPLed code?
>>
>>  BTW, I haven't looked into Sun's code. So, I can still do the clean room
>>  implementation.
>
> Sun (now Oracle)'s code is available as part of the OpenJDK project.
> The intention with GNU Classpath is still to provide a clean-room implementation
> rather than import wholesale chunks of their code.
>
> However, if you just want quick access to a 1.7 version of GridBag, a quicker
> solution may be to just use the OpenJDK package on your distro.
>
> For what it's worth:
>
> http://fuseyism.com/japi/icedtea7-classpath.html#err_missing_java_awt
>
> lists the current state of GNU Classpath compared with the 1.7 API.

I see the states of the matters now.

Thank you very much for the pointer.

>>  Thanks.
>>
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>>  Best regards,
>>  Eus
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