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Re: Up-to-date News on GCJ
Hi,
On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 14:55 +0530, Ranjit Mathew wrote:
> In a similar vein, can you please look at the main content of
> the page and suggest changes? For example, now that GNU Classpath
> is completely merged into GCJ, the status pages for the libgcj-
> Classpath merge and the GUI branch merge are not needed. I also
> do not know if the comments about GNU Crypto and Jessie are still
> valid. Lastly, rhug itself proclaims that it does not need to
> exist any more now that the BC-ABI is fully functional.
I saw some nice suggestions for improvements, but it might be a good
idea to just start by removing all the (completely and horribly)
outdated stuff first. OK to commit this patch?
2006-05-25 Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org>
* index.html: Remove outdated library stuff.
Cheers,
Mark
Index: htdocs/java/index.html
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RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/java/index.html,v
retrieving revision 1.159
diff -u -r1.159 index.html
--- htdocs/java/index.html 20 May 2006 21:34:50 -0000 1.159
+++ htdocs/java/index.html 24 May 2006 23:41:08 -0000
@@ -24,13 +24,6 @@
compiled/interpreted applications.</p>
<p>
-Most of the APIs specified by "The Java Class Libraries" Second
-Edition and the "Java 2 Platform supplement" are supported, including
-collections, networking, reflection, and serialization. AWT is
-currently unsupported, but work to implement it is in progress.
-</p>
-
-<p>
Debugging is supported using recent versions of the
GNU debugger, <a href="http://sources.redhat.com/gdb/";>GDB</a>.
A <a href="gdb.html">short tutorial</a> on using GDB to debug
@@ -46,31 +39,10 @@
GCJ is part of the GNU Compiler Collection (<a href="../">GCC</a>). GCC,
GDB and related tools are
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html";>Free Software</a>.
-libgcj is slowly being merged with <a
-href="http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/";>GNU Classpath</a>. (You
-can see the <a href="libgcj-classpath-compare.html">status of the merge</a>
-between libgcj CVS and GNU Classpath CVS. And the
-<a href="gui-compare/libgcj-classpath-compare.html">status of the gui branch
-merge</a>.)
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Many free software Java packages have been ported to work with GCJ. A
-collection of such packages are in the <a
-href="http://sources.redhat.com/rhug/";>rhug</a> project. Both sources
-and RPMs are available.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-For <code>javax.crypto</code> support, we recommend the use of
-<a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/gnu-crypto/";>GNU Crypto</a>.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-For JSSE
-(including <code>javax.net</code>, <code>javax.net.ssl</code>,
-and <code>javax.security.cert</code> support), we recommend
-<a href="http://www.nongnu.org/jessie/";>Jessie</a>.
+libgcj has been merged with <a
+href="http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/";>GNU Classpath</a> and
+supports most of the 1.4 libraries plus some 1.5 additions. (Support
+for the new 1.5 language features in the compiler is being worked on.)
</p>
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