[IMPORTANT] NetX & Plugin Move

[Thomas Fitzsimmons]

Hi Deepak,

Deepak Bhole <dbhole-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> writes:

> * Dr Andrew John Hughes <ahughes-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> [2010-10-19 07:58]:
>> I'm working on creating the new repository for the plugin and NetX.
>> Please don't commit any changes to NetX or the plugin until I announce
>> the new repository.
>
> Nice! It will be great to have the Plugin and Web stuff out of
> main-line.

With gcjwebplugin I went the opposite direction and merged it into GNU
Classpath.  The advantages of that arrangement outweighed the
inconveniences.  It meant that more people built the code regularly and
in different environments and meant less fiddling for non-plugin
developers wanting to test a failing applet against the development
tree.

> For one, it will avoid double commits to icedtea and
> icedtea6 each time..

Do you foresee a need for stable and development branches of the plugin
and NetX?

> and it will be easier for distros to update just
> those specific parts.

Are you planning to provide standalone NetX/plugin distribution
tarballs, separate from IcedTea?

Thomas