IcedTea Fonts

[Hans de Goede]

Andrew Haley wrote:
> 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/
> 


Hmm,

It looks like that because of these dns issues, bugzilla can't send mails, I 
didn't receive my initial random password, nor the token when I tried the 
forgotten password procedure,

Regards,

Hans