Re: [Java-gnome-developer] starting a new project

[Andrew C. <an...@op...>]

On Wed, 2005-30-03 at 11:42 +0200, Olivier Evalet wrote:
> It is a little complex to start a new project that use java-gnome 
> (and/or others java libs) with eclipse *and* autoconf/automake. The main 
> idea is to help new projects that want integrate from the beginning gcj 
> and pkg-config. 

Well on purpose I don't use autoconf and automake. The nature of Java
gives a rather unique twist to the configuration problem, not the least
of which being that once you have prerequisite jars located and a
suitable Java VM in place, then all you need is a very straight forward
Makefile.

[I'm writing a paper about this, in fact]

I have not yet abstracted my work on this out into a separate form
usable by other projects, but if you're interested in an alternate
approach to the configuration problem you might grab the sources of a
project I'm working on and have a look.
http://research.operationaldynamics.com/darcs/xseq/HACKING

> Is there possibilities to create templates for libraries 
> and applications?

I *will* be splicing this work out at some point. I thought
"configure4j" a nice moniker.

AfC
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