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Re: Up-to-date News on GCJ
- From: Bryce McKinlay <mckinlay at redhat dot com>
- To: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>
- Cc: Ranjit Mathew <rmathew at gmail dot com>, Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>, java at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 03:37:47 -0400
- Subject: Re: Up-to-date News on GCJ
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Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
We can perhaps use one of the designs posted on OSWD:
http://www.oswd.org/
We'd need to keep the fixed footers etc., though I noticed that
the main FSF page changed to a somewhat more modern design a while
ago as well. One common, modern theme, with variations, across
GNU project probably would be best, but not too likely I dare say.
I quite like the new www.gnu.org design. Its much more modern looking
than the gcc/gcj pages now. I certainly wouldn't object to using
www.gnu.org as a model for a redesign of the gcc/gcj pages.
Does GCJ really have different PR needs? Frankly, I'd like to give
GCJ much more presence in terms on the GCC side, and ramp of GCC PR
quite a bit. I don't necessarily think the needs are so different,
rather that GCJ may be doing better. :-)
IMO we do have - somewhat - different PR needs. For one thing, our
audience is different - we're reaching out to Java developers who may
not necessarily have any interest in C/C++ or the rest of the compiler
suite. Also, GCJ can be seen as a collection of technologies of which
the compiler is just one part. That isn't to say the pages should be
separate, but it would be confusing if (for example) too much non-Java
information were to be seen on the GCJ pages. I'd like to see GCJ
maintain (and grow) its own web identity alongside GCC.
Bryce