Re: 1.1.7 final(?) tarballs available
"Grzegorz B. Prokopski" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.java.vm.sablevm.devel |
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| Organization | SableVM - LGPL'ed Free Java VM http://sablevm.org |
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Hi PJ, hi everyone, On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 18:34, David Bélanger wrote: > On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 04:51:42PM -0400, PJ Cabrera wrote: > > I am concerned that this release of sablevm-classpath-1.1.7 requires > > Gtk-2.0 >= 2.4. I am afraid there's not much we can do to "just fix it". Swing and AWT are under heavy development and the developers use the latest versions of GTK, thus they probably sometimes rely on some features available in newever versions only. What we could do, is try to work it around. I don't know how mych of gtk-2.4 is actually being used. You can change the pkg-config check in configure to check for gtk 2.2 and see what other problems arise. We might be able to work around these bits that depend on 2.4 and document how to build sablevm-classpath with gtk < 2.4. > > So I ask, is it too late to change things so that we can use SableVM > > under distros that worked with 1.1.6? Because this change to Gtk 2.4 > > breaks SableVM for a lot of distros that used to work with me in 1.1.6. [...] > A SableVM and a SableVM-Classpath that match in numbers are compatible > in there interface. SableVM should work with an older Classpath > provided that the interface between SableVM and Classpath did not > change. > > So using SableVM with older CP is one possible option. SableVM 1.1.6 happened loooong ago. A few months passed, 1.1.7 contains many changes to classpath interface and they will not work together "out of the box". > A better option is to use only the gtk components of the older CP and > for the remaining classes the newer CP. Yes, that would work, but one of the points of new releases of sablevm-classpath is to be able to use the improvements in Swing and AWT support. I wish I could help you more, Grzegorz B. Prokopski -- Grzegorz B. Prokopski <[email protected]> SableVM - Free, LGPL'ed Java VM http://sablevm.org Why SableVM ?!? http://sablevm.org/wiki/Features Debian GNU/Linux - the Free OS http://www.debian.org