[crossfire] Importing the GTK+ editor in SVN

[Alex Schultz]

On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:53:42 +0200
Raphaël Quinet <raphael at gimp.org> wrote:

> > > it has less installation dependencies than gridarta,
> > >
> > Wrong. It depends on GTK and Perl. Gridarta depends on 1.6 JRE. I
> > don't see how it would in any way imply "less dependencies".
> 
> Sorry, I should have said "it has less dependencies for Free Software
> users".  Gridarta depends on the Sun JRE 6, which is currently
> non-free.  I know that many users do not care about the details of the
> license, but I do.  Fortunately, the JRE will soon be really free, but
> we still have to wait a bit. 

Well, I'd like to note that actually, a Free Software Java 6 JRE does
exist today in the form of IcedTea6. It is available in Ubuntu (see
http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/interpreters/openjdk-6-jre) and
Fedora. I've been using IcedTea6 myself for little while and have had
no issues including in usage with Gridarta (in fact, memory
consumption seems slightly lower for some reason but I'm not
completely certain). In addition at least the Fedora build does pass
Sun's Java Test Compatibility Kit. So in other words, we do actually
have Free Java 6 today.

As far as bringing another editor in, my stance is mostly neutral
however I don't think it would do much good.

Alex Schultz