Bug#366783: Re: Bug#366783: fop works with gij and classpath

[Arnaud Vandyck]

On 4/16/07, Roger Leigh <rleigh at whinlatter.ukfsn.org> wrote:
> Hi folks,

Hi Roger,

> Has any progress been made with getting fop to work with gij/classpath
> so it can move into main.  I would like to Build-Depend on it, so it
> would be absolutely fantastic to have a fully free fop in main.

Yes it'd be fantastic be it's not possible at the moment. I'm working
on this and I packaged xmlgraphics-commons which is now needed by FOP.
I realized that xmlgraphics-commons will need to be built by non-free
jdk because of some jpeg and tiff codecs from Sun (they are not yet
implemented in free class library).

Also, as Sun is releasing openjdk, we can soon integrate parts of the
api in other free libraries, then, it'll be possible to move it to
main.

Thanks for your interest,

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Arnaud Vandyck