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Re: awt or swing support?
- To: Amancio Hasty <hasty at rah dot star-gate dot com>
- Subject: Re: awt or swing support?
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 16:58:48 -0800 (PST)
- Cc: Jeff Sturm <jsturm at sigma6 dot com>, Tom Tromey <tromey at cygnus dot com>, java-discuss at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <38A4F15C.5FDD61CD@sigma6.com><200002120816.AAA32117@rah.star-gate.com>
>>>>> "Amancio" == Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> writes:
Amancio> I haven't taken a detailed look at Sun's awt or swing stuff
Amancio> however it seems almost intuitive that one should be a able
Amancio> to port the JNI stuff to whatever gcj has. I assume that in
Amancio> the case of gcj it will mean mapping JNI to CNI and of course
Amancio> the respective c routines. Just a high level thought.
Oh, I didn't realize that you were approaching the problem with Sun's
source. Yes, your plan would work. We are definitely not going to do
that, because libgcj is free software, and Sun's JDK is not. libgcj
hackers can't even look at Sun's source.
Tom