IcedTea Fonts

[Hans de Goede]

Thomas Fitzsimmons wrote:
> 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 
> 

I've been doing some testing of this, and I would like to file some bugs, but 
each time I goto:
http://icedtea.classpath.org/

I get a dns error saying that the host icedtea.classpath.org cannot be resolved.

Regards,

Hans