GCJ [was: pdftk retired?]

[Andrew Hughes]

----- Original Message -----
> On 03/08/2014 03:37 AM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 9:32 AM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Sorry I am missing something. Why can't we keep the old pdftk that
> >>> works with itext2?
> >>
> >> Check the whole thread - because of GCJ dependency. iText is second
> >> issue. The first could be fixed by rewrite of offending part of code
> >> to Java but someone would have to do it first. That's how I understand
> >> this situation.
> >>
> > 
> > The only things I read in the thread are "GCJ is abandoned" and "we
> > really want to get rid of GCJ". Am I supposed to come to the
> > conclusion that the GCJ package is dropped from Fedora? If so, where
> > is this decision made? Why was it made without consulting GCJ users?
> 
> The problem is more to do with upstream maintainership.  If GCJ is to
> be used in the future it needs to be updated to a current version of
> the Java class library, but that's a lot of work.  GCJ is still a
> pretty good compiler for the Java language, but it's stuck at JDK5
> (ish).
> 
> Andrew.
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And JDK5 might be good enough for the use required. It doesn't claim
to be anything more than that, so I don't see the harm in leaving it there.
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Andrew :)

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