[oi-dev] Dropping java interfaces to Gnome libraries

[Adam Števko]

Hey,

+1 from me. If the upstream dropped, we can safely assume we don't need it either.

Cheers,
Adam

> On 28 Feb 2017, at 23:49, Alexander Pyhalov <alp at rsu.ru> wrote:
> 
>> On 28.02.2017 23:43, Franklin Ronald wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I don't know any real world application that make use of Java-Gnome stack.
>> In official site the latest beta was released on 2013, May.
>> The most notable Java Desktop applications are written with Swing or
>> SWT. If anyone write a java desktop application normally is because
>> "portability" (or are completely crazy), and make a glue between Java
>> and specific desktop API is nonsense IMHO.
>> I think that libraries can be dropped.
>> Em 28/02/17 17:30, Alexander Pyhalov escreveu:
>>> Hello, people.
>>> Need your opinion on the following question.
>>> We currently provide several jni libraries, wrapping
>>> Gnome native libraries -
>>> cairo-java
>>> java-atk-wrapper
>>> libgconf-java
>>> libglade-java
>>> libgnome-java
>>> libgtk-java
>>> glib-java
>>> libvte-java
> 
> There's a little mess.
> I believe that we've never shipped java-gnome, http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/java-gnome/4.1/ (from 2013).
> We shipped only libgnome-java, https://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libgnome-java/2.12/ (from 2007).
> 
> Oracle has dropped these libraries (except java-atk-wrapper) at 2015-12-15, according to solaris-desktop~spec-files Changelog.
> I'm inclined to do the same...
> 
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