Volunteers needed to test IcedTea (on amd64) !!!

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi Tom,

On Sat, 2007-10-06 at 11:17 -0500, Tom Marble wrote:
> peter green wrote:
> >>Extra points awarded to testing on amd64!!!
> > 
> > I've been running a version of icedtea B21 built in an amd64 sid chroot
> > from the ubuntu source packages that doko released on my mixed lenny/sid
> > amd64 system.
> > 
> > The moleculeviewer applet seems to work fine.
> That is certainly good to know as it demonstrates that IcedTea including
> gcjwebplugin does interoperate correctly on amd64.

I can confirm that things build and look good, if you don't mind some
strange font/graphics artifacts (nothing big, but not always
anti-aliased) on both x86 and x86_64 (Fedora 8 Test 3).

> Of course you can't!  My bad.  We don't have plugin for amd64 :(
> But this is now RFE#1 !!!
>   http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/top25_rfes.do
> And using gcjwebplugin is a stopgap measure until we get our
> plugin source code released.

gcjwebplugin works pretty good (except for liveconnect/javascript
interaction). Is there any timeline or work items to be done for the Sun
plugin source code release? Why doesn't it compile/work on x86_64?

Cheers,

Mark