On Friday 12 August 2005 17:33, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> Debian? But Fedora is the same principle and it ships with OOo and > Java, IIRC...
Fedora is building everything with gcj which we have not done yet,
What's gcj and is there a problem with us doing it also?
GNU Java compiler. The compiler is not as mature as the SUN one but is really getting there.
Okay, that's said for Java. But why can't OOo be included? Isn't it released under GPL, free for anyone to recompile/include in their packages?
OOo can be included - the problem is that OOo needs Java... It does not make sense to install a package with a broken dependency,
I concur with the others when they say they've installed OOo without Java. (At least, I've done it on Win32.)
So:
1. Does OOo depend unavoidably on Java?
more or less
2. When gcj is up and satisfactorily running we'll have OOo and Java shipped?
Petr is working on this approach. However, it is not complete, some features will miss and it might not have the same speed.
3. Are OOo and Java the only two stumbling points?
4. If Fedora is using Java right now, why can't we?
Pure gcj based, so it will have the same restrictions as we will have. We hope to be able to make it optional for the user to use the Sun Java engine later. bye adrian -- Adrian Schroeter SuSE AG, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany email: adrian@suse.de