[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 <fitzsim(a)redhat.com&gt;
>  To: fedora-devel-java-list(a)redhat.com
>  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
>