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Re: GCJ ------ file type not supported by system
- From: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
- To: Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia <guille dot rodriguez at gmail dot com>
- Cc: Mario Torre <neugens at redhat dot com>, "classpath at gnu dot org" <classpath at gnu dot org>, kgy <gykarsai at all dot hu>, "java at gcc dot gnu dot org" <java at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 18:11:14 +0100
- Subject: Re: GCJ ------ file type not supported by system
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Hi,
On 09/03/2014 05:35 PM, Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> 2014-09-03 18:30 GMT+02:00 Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com>:
>> On 09/03/2014 05:12 PM, Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia wrote:
>>> 1. Development of GNU Classpath seems to be stalled now (quoting from
>>> an earlier post from Andrew Haley: "I have to tell you that Classpath
>>> is not being actively developed, so your problem is unlikely to be
>>> fixed.")
>>>
>>> 2. This is due to the lack of manpower, which in turn is probably due
>>> to the lack of interested developers, but also to the fact that most
>>> of the development effort of the current team is going to OpenJDK
>>> instead.
>>>
>>> 3. Given the above, perhaps the current maintainers should consider
>>> switching priorities and start actively looking for a "competent
>>> successor" (as in lesson #5 of ESR's "The Cathedral and the Bazaar").
>>
>> Your opinion has been noted. Now, what do *you* intend to do to help?
>
> I am willing to help where possible. Sending patches or bugfixes is OK
> (and I will do so if I come across any problems), but in my opinion
> this does not address the real problem. For example *I* cannot update
> the GNU Classpath page to list 0.99, and not 0.98, as the current
> version.
Almost all of GNU Classpath is under source control, and patches are
welcome. A new version of the web page is welcome. Having said that,
I don't have access to the web page, but I think we can get it.
> What would you like me to do? How can I help ?
I think I'd like people to fix problems when they find them. "Update
Classpath to Java 1.6." isn't a reasonable interim goal.
Andrew.