Re: [Gnome-print] Re: ghostscript todo

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs eazel com>]

Nick Moffitt <nick@valinux.com> writes:

> begin  Maciej Stachowiak quotation:
> > Nick Moffitt <nick@valinux.com> writes:
> > > 	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.
> 
> 	Fortunately for us, jikes is Free Software!
> 

Hmmm, is it a java compiler, or a runtime, or both? We need both for
the build process, as far as I can tell, because we need to run the
java code when it gets compiled.

 - Maciej