Re: moving rhug packages into Red Hat Linux?

[Nicholas Wourms <nwourms at myrealbox dot com>]

Tom Tromey wrote:
> > > > > > "Per" == Per Bothner <per@bothner.com> writes:
>
>
> Per> Perhaps some of the rhug packages should be distributed as part
> Per> of Red Hat Linux?
>
> Sounds good to me.
>
> Per> I'm personally interested in adding Kawa to Red Hat Linux, but we
> Per> need to standardize on packaging issues.
>
> We've already got some java (and gcj-) packaging standards internally.
> Gary Benson has spearheaded that work.  Maybe he'll also spearhead
> getting rhug applications into RHLP :-)
>
> I'm interested in this, and I think we should be doing it.  Time is a
> (negative) factor for me though.  Still, I think we'll see some of
> this happen.
Speaking of which...

What ever happened to those rhug packages that showed up on rawhide for 
awhile during April-June?  Also, what's the story with the gcc-ssa that 
was in rawhide (I assume in conjunction with the rhug packages)?  I 
assume these packages are still being worked on internally, so any 
chance that they could be posted on people.redhat.com?  I mean, there's 
really nothing to loose by doing this, it would be useful in that bugs 
would be exposed faster...  I know some of the redhat gcc people monitor 
this list, so I'd like to say I think it would be cool if you guys made 
snapshot rpms of mainline and ssa for those of us who love living on the 
bleeding edge and are willing to assist in testing.

Also, why were the gcj Sun compatibility wrappers axed from severn?  I 
can't speak for everyone, but I found them quite useful.  They also 
seemed to be a very low-maintenance package.

Finally, are there any plans to transition to 
libtool-1.5/autoconf-2.5X/automake-1.7?

Cheers,
Nicholas