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[wwwdocs] Further rework of the Java main (and news) page
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>
- To: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, java-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2006 18:36:02 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: [wwwdocs] Further rework of the Java main (and news) page
Not quite where Tom and me probably want to arrive at, but still an
improvement. I hope.
Installed.
2006-07-02 Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com>
* index.html: Shorten introduction. Rotate some news...
* news.html: ...to here.
Index: index.html
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RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/java/index.html,v
retrieving revision 1.167
diff -u -3 -p -r1.167 index.html
--- index.html 1 Jul 2006 17:15:08 -0000 1.167
+++ index.html 2 Jul 2006 15:26:22 -0000
@@ -8,15 +8,9 @@
<h1>The GNU Compiler for the Java<sup><a href="tm.html"><small>TM</small></a></sup> Programming Language</h1>
<p>GCJ is a portable, optimizing, ahead-of-time compiler for the Java
-Programming Language. It can compile:</p>
-<ul>
-<li>Java source code directly to native machine code,</li>
-<li>Java source code to Java bytecode (class files),</li>
-<li>and Java bytecode to native machine code.</li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>GCJ can also be configured as a cross-compiler, suitable for embedded systems
-programming.</p>
+Programming Language. It can compile Java source code to Java bytecode
+(class files) or directly to native machine code, and Java bytecode to
+native machine code.</p>
<p>Compiled applications are linked with the GCJ runtime,
<code>libgcj</code>, which provides the core class libraries, a
@@ -29,9 +23,10 @@ supports most of the 1.4 libraries plus
</p>
<p>
-Recent versions of the GNU debugger, <a
-href="http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/">GDB</a> support GCJ (<a
-href="gdb.html">short tutorial</a>).
+GCJ can also be configured as a cross-compiler, suitable for embedded
+systems programming. Recent versions of the <a
+href="http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/">GNU Debugger</a> support GCJ
+(<a href="gdb.html">short tutorial</a>).
</p>
@@ -110,23 +105,6 @@ notes</a>) into GCJ.</dd>
<dd>Mark Wielaard has written "<a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/171139/">A
look at GCJ 4.1</a>" for LWN.net.</dd>
-<dt>January 16, 2006</dt>
-<dd>Mark Wielaard has imported <a
-href="http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/">GNU Classpath</a> 0.20 (<a
-href="http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/announce/20060113.html">release
-notes</a>) into GCJ.</dd>
-
-<dt>November 17, 2005</dt>
-<dd>Mark Wielaard has imported <a
-href="http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/">GNU Classpath</a> 0.19 (<a
-href="http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/announce/20051102.html">release
-notes</a>) into GCJ.</dd>
-
-<dt>October 12, 2005</dt>
-<dd>The October 2005 issue of Red Hat Magazine contains the article
-"<a href="http://www.redhat.com/magazine/012oct05/features/java/">The
-state of Java on Linux</a>" by Tom Tromey.</dd>
-
</dl>
<a href="news.html">Less recent GCJ news</a>
Index: news.html
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RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/java/news.html,v
retrieving revision 1.8
diff -u -3 -p -r1.8 news.html
--- news.html 1 Jul 2006 17:15:08 -0000 1.8
+++ news.html 2 Jul 2006 15:26:23 -0000
@@ -12,6 +12,23 @@
<dl class="news">
+<dt>January 16, 2006</dt>
+<dd>Mark Wielaard has imported <a
+href="http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/">GNU Classpath</a> 0.20 (<a
+href="http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/announce/20060113.html">release
+notes</a>) into GCJ.</dd>
+
+<dt>November 17, 2005</dt>
+<dd>Mark Wielaard has imported <a
+href="http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/">GNU Classpath</a> 0.19 (<a
+href="http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/announce/20051102.html">release
+notes</a>) into GCJ.</dd>
+
+<dt>October 12, 2005</dt>
+<dd>The October 2005 issue of Red Hat Magazine contains the article
+"<a href="http://www.redhat.com/magazine/012oct05/features/java/">The
+state of Java on Linux</a>" by Tom Tromey.</dd>
+
<dt>September 23, 2005</dt>
<dd>Tom Tromey has imported <a
href="http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/">GNU Classpath</a> 0.18 (<a