IcedTea Fonts

[Andrew Haley]

Hans de Goede writes:
 > 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.

http://icedtea.classpath.berkeleysignal.com/

Andrew.

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