Re: [Java-gnome-developer] Active projects?

[Srichand P. <sri...@gm...>]

Hello Albert,

Thanks for trying out Java-GNOME. I'll attempt to answer your first
question.

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 1:24 PM, Albert Kurucz <alb...@gm...>wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I just have downloaded java-gnome.
> Checkout using bzr/Configure/make/make install worked with no problem
> OpenSUSE 10.3, even the sample Java code!
>

As it should. I'm glad it worked.


>
> But when I tried this on my other machine with Windows XP, error happened
> already at checkout:
> "Unable to create symlink"
>
> Should java-gnome work on Windows?
> It would be sad if not.
>

Short answer: No.

Longer answer: Notice that the project is called Java-GNOME and not Java-GTK
or variants thereof. This is because we aim to cover all of GNOME's
libraries, not just GTK. Effectively, by definition, Java-GNOME will not
work at all on platforms that do not support GNOME. That said, the CyGNOME
project's aim is to port the GNOME desktop to Windows. Now, I have never
used CyGNOME nor do I know of anyone who's tried it, but _maybe_, just
_maybe_ its possible that with a bunch of hacks, you may get Java-GNOME to
compile on it (with all the UNIXy stuff taken out).
As you would imagine, such a system would be so far separated away from
mainline that it just would not be worth maintaining it.

The documentation on the website, especially the part about the "target
audience" makes for good reading on what the project aims to achieve.

Regards,
Srichand


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