Re: Questions on Swing implementation maturity via an example

[Thomas Fitzsimmons <fitzsim at redhat dot com>]

On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 13:56, Patrick wrote:
> Hello,
> I recently built CVS GCJ using the JHBuild instructions available at
> http://people.redhat.com/fitzsim/gcj-and-jhbuild.html. I used a
> /gcj/source, /gcj/build and /gcj/install directory structure to build -
> modifying the excellent jhbuild instructions ever so slightly. On
> completion I added /gcj/install/bin to the front of my PATH and changed
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH to /gcj/install/lib.

JHBuild can set these environment variables for you automatically -- try
"jhbuild shell".

>  Then I decided to look for the test
> cases to see what could be done.
> 

We've been tracking AWT and Swing bugs internally at Red Hat, but we're
soon going to move all the internal reports out to GCC Bugzilla.  When
that happens, I'll follow up with pointers to some good bugs to get
started on.

> Finally, one general question: while taking a look at the Classpath
> status in comparison to Sun's J2SE SDK, it appears that the majority of
> the J2SE packages are completed (at least if you pull in
> Tritonus/Jessie/GNU Crypto/and some CORBA solution).

Yes -- the plan is to add support to JHBuild for these packages and
their dependencies, so that one can easily create a J2SE-like
development environment.

> Am I correct in
> understanding that AWT and Swing are now the last major, remaining
> pieces of the J2SE to complete for Classpath?

Yes, those are the last major ones.  They're both progressing nicely,
but we can use all the help we can get.  It's good to hear that you're
interested in helping!

Tom