[The Java Posse] Re: "JKoala is an open source project aimed at porting AWT / Swing under Mac OS X / Cocoa"

[Rob Ross]

On Oct 28, 2010, at 8:34 AM, Chris Adamson wrote:

> Dalibor just tweeted a status update on the bsd-port project from
> Landon Fuller, in the context of whether JKoala could/should be
> integrated with it at some point.
> 
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/bsd-port-dev/2010-October/001355.html
> 
> It's in response to Rob, who likes the one-focused-developer model,
> while Landon would prefer for these efforts to be organized around bsd-
> port.
> 
> --Chris

I wouldn't say I prefer a single person to work on it. I was trying to get across that this one person is not only qualified to lead the charge on a Mac-native port, but is also available full time, which is what this project is going to need.

I hope Landon and Emmanuel can get in touch with each other and discuss and coordinate.

Also, I'm curious why OpenJDK wouldn't just start an "official" new project, a "MacOS-port" project, instead of relying on the BSD-port? The goal it to recreate (and surpass) what Apple did on its port, right? Not just hack up the BSD code so it can run on Mac OS?

I want a fully native, integrated JDK for the Mac OS platform, and I'm willing to do it myself (metaphorically speaking, I'm not insane) if I have to in order to make this happen.


Rob