RE: Java-Gnome 0.8.1

[Murray Cumming Comneon com]

> > What do you think of the GNOME Bindings release set idea?
> 
> The java-gnome development team is discussing this now.  We
> are excited with the idea but want to make sure we can comply 
> with the requirements.  
> 
> One possible issue is that we have just added support for 
> libgtkhtml.  This support consists of 11 java classes and 
> 7 C files containing the JNI.  We currently offer two packages.  
> A GTK only package (glib, atk, pango, libglade, and gtk) which 
> will include libgtkhtml 

I find it fairly arbitrary to bundle libgtkhtml and libglade with GTK+ but
not others.

> in the next release and a gnome package 
> (contains all of the gtk packages plus libgnome and libgnomeui) 
> which will include gconf in the next release.  I know this 
> has been discussed on this list but I wish to express that it 
> would seem awkward to split the java bindings into yet an 
> additional package to contain the libgtkhtml binding given 
> that it is so small.

I stand by my arguments.

Murray Cumming
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