The Chemistry Development Kit

Egon Willighagen wrote:
> Hi all,
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> some interesting reading material:
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> http://lwn.net/Articles/130796/
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> Any using gcj for CDK by any chance?

The only advantage would be to have a "regular" executable, instead of=20
a jar file. This might increase usability for Joe User.
Speed is not an issue, as is stated in the above article.
So, the advantages are quite limited and considering the hassles=20
arrising from learning to use this "new way of compiling" and=20
discovering what is all not supported after two days... I don't know.

Maybe I'm too negative here :-)

Cheers,

Chris

PS: I guess, Swing is not supported?!?

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On Friday 15 April 2005 01:25 pm, Christoph Steinbeck wrote:
> Egon Willighagen wrote:
> > some interesting reading material:
> >
> > http://lwn.net/Articles/130796/
> >
> > Any using gcj for CDK by any chance?
>
> The only advantage would be to have a "regular" executable, instead of
> a jar file. This might increase usability for Joe User.

More importantly: it would make the whole usage of CDK truely open source... 
now will still require the proprietary Sun JVM.

> Speed is not an issue, as is stated in the above article.
> So, the advantages are quite limited and considering the hassles
> arrising from learning to use this "new way of compiling" and
> discovering what is all not supported after two days... I don't know.
>
> Maybe I'm too negative here :-)

Well, I haven't made the transition yet, so ...

> PS: I guess, Swing is not supported?!?

There are Java bindings for SWT, Gnome, KDE... Only partial Swing, but there 
are many free alternatives... there is even a SWT-based stand-in for Swing...

Egon