[oi-dev] Dropping java interfaces to Gnome libraries

Aurélien Larcher aurelien.larcher at gmail.com
Tue Feb 28 23:24:51 UTC 2017


On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 12:21 AM, Adam Števko <adam.stevko at gmail.com> wrote:

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

+1 as well.


>
> 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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