IcedTea Fonts

[Thomas Fitzsimmons]

Thomas Fitzsimmons wrote:
> Hans de Goede wrote:
>> Thomas Fitzsimmons wrote:
>>> Hans de Goede wrote:
>>>> <resending with CC to mailinglist, sorry>
>>>>
>>>> Kyle Galloway wrote:
>>>>> A replacement for the encumbered font rendering code has been 
>>>>> checked into IcedTea.  It removes the dependency on the encumbered 
>>>>> libt2k, and replaces it with FreeType.  Sun is working on a more 
>>>>> full-featured replacement, and I believe the code is close to being 
>>>>> merged into OpenJDK itself.  Screen shots are available on Francis' 
>>>>> blog http://fkung.wordpress.com/2007/07/18/icedtea-fonts-working/ .
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Very cool,
>>>>
>>>> I have some questions I hope you're willing to answer:
>>>>
>>>> So how far away are we from something thats theoretically ready to run
>>>> graphical java apps?
>>>>
>>>> Are there any plans on packaging this for inclusion into Fedora 
>>>> anytime soon,
>>>> are there any reasons why it cannot be packaged at the moment?
>>>
>>> It's already packaged for Fedora:
>>>
>>> http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/fedora/
>>> http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/fedora
>>>
>>> Only some questionable license headers are preventing it from being 
>>> proposed for Rawhide.  As soon as the license headers are cleaned up 
>>> I'll be proposing it for inclusion.
>>>
>>
>> I already new about those nosrc.rpm's, but I didn't know they were 
>> planned to go to rawhide, thats really good news! Any progress news on 
>> those license headers?
>>
>> Also any chance we can see a new snapshot there soon with the font 
>> stuff included?
> 
> Yup, I'm testing a candidate nosrc RPM right now.

Here is a snapshot nosrc RPM that includes the IcedTea font rendering code:

http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/fedora/java-1.7.0-icedtea-1.7.0.0-0.8.b15.nosrc.rpm

Tom