On 03/19/2014 10:59 PM, Andrew Hughes wrote:
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> On 03/08/2014 03:37 AM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 9:32 AM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Sorry I am missing something. Why can't we keep the old pdftk that
>>>> works with itext2?
>>>
>>> Check the whole thread - because of GCJ dependency. iText is second
>>> issue. The first could be fixed by rewrite of offending part of code
>>> to Java but someone would have to do it first. That's how I understand
>>> this situation.
>>>
>>
>> The only things I read in the thread are "GCJ is abandoned" and
"we
>> really want to get rid of GCJ". Am I supposed to come to the
>> conclusion that the GCJ package is dropped from Fedora? If so, where
>> is this decision made? Why was it made without consulting GCJ users?
>
> The problem is more to do with upstream maintainership. If GCJ is to
> be used in the future it needs to be updated to a current version of
> the Java class library, but that's a lot of work. GCJ is still a
> pretty good compiler for the Java language, but it's stuck at JDK5
> (ish).
And JDK5 might be good enough for the use required. It doesn't claim
to be anything more than that, so I don't see the harm in leaving it there.
Speaking as the upstream maintainer, I do.
Andrew.