[fedora-java] Fedora Core 5 Wishlist

[Thomas Fitzsimmons]

Hi,

I tried to send this yesterday but there was a problem with the Fedora
list servers.

Tom

-------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: Thomas Fitzsimmons 
> To: [e-mail]
> Subject: Fedora Core 5 Wishlist
> Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 21:16:31 -0400
>
> Hi,
>
> I've been thinking about my GCJ-related goals for Fedora Core 5, due out
> February 2006.  Here's a categorized list:
> java-gcj-compat
>
> GNU Crypto fix for Eclipse extssh support:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=146782
>
> Casey Marshall has already committed a Diffie-Hellman JCE provider to
>
> GNU Classpath so this is just a matter of testing.
>
> import all JAWT fixes:
>
> All the necessary patches are already in GNU Classpath and libgcj so
>
> this is just a matter of testing that JOGL works properly on our
> java-1.4.2-gcj-compat RPM.
>
> Jessie merged into GNU Classpath
>
> GNU Crypto core algorithms merged into GNU Classpath
>
> gjdoc merged into GNU Classpath and thus ...
>
> an --enable-javadocs option to libgcj
>
> gcjx becomes java-gcj-compat's javac and javah commands:
>
> Not sure if this one is doable in time; I don't mean full gcjx, just
>
> the bytecode-compiler portion of it split off into a standalone javac
> executable.
> include Tritonus or some sound implementation
> AWT
>
> ImageMagick backend for ImageIO
>
> Graphics/Imaging refactoring for GTK 2.8 and Cairo
>
> MegaMek packages in Fedora Extras:
>
> http://megamek.sourceforge.net/
>
> This just involves a few AWT bug fixes now.
>
> fix all 1.5 japi issues in the java.awt.* packages
>
> fix all 1.5 japi issues in the javax.imageio.* packages
> Swing
>
> RHDB tools in Fedora Extras:
>
> http://sources.redhat.com/rhdb/administrator.html
>
> http://sources.redhat.com/rhdb/visualexplain.html
>
> http://sources.redhat.com/rhdb/controlcenter.html
>
> This will also require updating these tools to support PostgreSQL 8.0.
>
> Limewire in Fedora Extras:
>
> http://www.limewire.org/
>
> 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
>
> Azureus in Fedora Extras:
>
> http://azureus.sourceforge.net/
>
> Again, not sure if this is doable before FC5 but this would be awesome
>
> to have.
> gcjwebplugin
> 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.
>
> Tom