Re: [patch] merge from java-gui-20050128-branch to trunk

[Mark Wielaard <mark at klomp dot org>]

Hi,

On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 13:30 +0530, Ranjit Mathew wrote:
> > if someone would be so kind as to give it a test drive, or even go so 
> > far as to commit it to trunk themselves under appropriate amounts of 
> > care and caution, I'd certainly appreciate it.
> > 
> > http://people.redhat.com/graydon/java-gui-20050128-merge-20050214.patch.gz
> > 
> > it seems to work for me, but trunk and I have failed to see eye to eye 
> > several times this year, and now is a bad time to be making mistakes.
>
> FWIW, I tested this patch against current mainline - the
> only failure was the patch to the ChangeLog, otherwise
> the whole thing built properly. (I did not write a GUI
> test program or anything of the sort.)

Tried it against a clean tree here with a --enable-java-awt=gtk
--enable-gtk-cairo (against cairo-0.3.0 snapshot) bootstrap which went
fine. The usual subject, GNU Classpath examples, jedit, freemind,
jfreechart, startup with this new patch (and actually show text now when
using -Dgnu.java.awt.peer.gtk.Graphics=Graphics2D !).

> Now if only we can address some of the more serious
> bugs reported by Norman Hendrich in time for 4.0, it'll
> be super cool.

Would patches for these have to go through the new gui-branch first?
There is just a week before the 4.0 branch. There are some bugfixes from
GNU Classpath that I would like to merge in if I was allowed to do them
on the trunk.

We also have to be careful about how we market this. Although all the
programs I mentioned above now startup they are far from actually
working. You really need to know where not to click atm. Compared with
something like eclipse, which is mostly rock-solid, swing applications
could be a disappointment if you just expect them to work. It is a huge
step from 3.4 (where practically nothing worked) of course.

> Thanks a lot for your great work!

+1 :)

Mark

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