Re: [Gnome-print] Re: ghostscript todo

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs eazel com>]

Nick Moffitt <nick@valinux.com> writes:

> begin  hamzy@us.ibm.com quotation:
> > > Omni is Java, which -- aside from the language/freedom issues --
> > > is only portable insofar as you have a JDK on said platoform.
> > 
> > Omni uses Java as an intermediate step in the build process.  The
> > parser (antlr) is written in Java.  It reads text files and produces
> > C++ driver code.  The entire Omni core is written in C++.  If you
> > just wanted to use Omni to print, you would not need java.  You only
> > would use the omni core library and the omni printer driver library.
> 
> 	Aha, so perhaps jikes may indeed do the job, and we really
> don't need to worry about runtime environments and JIT-compilers.
> 

Requiring non-free tools to build is less bad than requiring non-free
tools at runtime, but I think it still ought to be considered a
showstopper to being a fully free system. Let's hope the gcj path
works out.

 - Maciej