Re: [Java-gnome-developer] Question and Introduction

[Jean v. W. <je...@sm...>]

Hi Josh,

On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Josh Lucas wrote:

> Hi -
> 
> I just subscribed to the list and actually just built the code and ran
> the TestGNOME class.  Very cool!

Thank you very much.

> I had one hiccup during the build but it seems it was more of an issue
> with the jni.h file supplied with the jdk.  I'm using the Sun 1.3 JDK
> and the jni.h file tries to include a jni_md.h but the file is actually
> in include/linux instead of just include.  A quick path change in the
> file made everything build.

That is one of the changes that we made.  Now it will only do that for a
JDK 1.1.  With a JDK > 1.3.0 it only needs to include one file.  You can
check it out in the CVS code.  (By the way the configure script / Makefiles
was re-written totally.)

> My question is to overall status.  I went through the archives a bit and
> there seemed to be a bit of discussion about a release happening soon. 
> Is that still the case?  Is there anything I could do to help as a way
> of getting my hands dirty and looking through the code?

Well we hope to do it tomorow / later in the week and then make an
anouncement after some testing.  We have quite a bit of new code in the 0.6
release.  We have some support for libglade / libglade-gnome as well, so
you may look forward to a new interesting and more feature complete
version.

We would appreciate your help.  We do not know what your core capabilities
are and interests are so we prefer that yoy tell us in which area you would
like to be working (with some guidance as to what needs to be done of
course).  You are welcome to help us if you can.  We may only assign some
tasks after the release but for now you can check out the code from CVS and
compile it to see whether you have some ideas.

Some areas where we always like some more help is in writing some examples
/ tests and documentation. We are slowly moving from large examples like
those in test to smaller examples in src/examples.  They are easier to
expand more focussed and easier to understand.

> thanks,
> josh

Looking forward to your help / suggestions.

Regards
Jean