Here’s my categorized list of goals for Fedora Core 5.
java-gcj-compat
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GNU Crypto fix for Eclipse extssh support
Casey Marshall has already committed a Diffie-Hellman JCE provider to GNU Classpath so this is just a matter of testing.
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import all JAWT fixes
All the necessary patches are already in GNU Classpath and libgcj.
- Jessie merged into GNU Classpath
- GNU Crypto core algorithms merged into GNU Classpath
- gjdoc merged into GNU Classpath enabling …
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--enable-javadocsoption to libgcj -
make gcjx java-gcj-compat’s javac commands
Not sure if this one is doable in time; I don’t mean full gcjx, just the bytecode-compiler portion in a standalone executable.
- include Tritonus or some other sound implementation
AWT
- ImageMagick backend for ImageIO
- Graphics/Imaging refactoring for GTK 2.8 and Cairo
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MegaMek packages in Fedora Extras
This just involves a few AWT bug fixes now.
- fix all 1.5 japi issues in java.awt.* packages
- fix all 1.5 japi issues in javax.imageio.* packages
Swing
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RHDB tools in Fedora Extras: Administrator, Visual Explain and Control Center.
This will require updating these tools to support PostgreSQL 8.0.
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Limewire in Fedora Extras
It would be absolutely awesome to have this Swing app working on the free stack but I’m not sure it’s doable in the FC5 time frame. Would anyone like to undertake it?
SWT
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Azureus in Fedora Extras
Again, not sure if this is doable before FC5 but this would be awesome to have.
gcjwebplugin
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implement and test security features in GNU Classpath to allow running untrusted bytecode
It’s very unlikely that this one will be finished before FC5 but I’d like to at least have started the implementation by then.
I’m hoping this list will inspire some volunteers, especially for the big apps and GNU Classpath’s security framework. Most of these items are very doable and will greatly improve the free JPackage stack on Fedora.
