A Plea to Reduce Dependences (e.g., for swig)

[Joshua Root]

On 2011-8-17 06:27 , Dan Ports wrote:
> In this case, it isn't nearly as bad as that graph suggests. Nearly all
> of those dependencies are needed only for kaffe, which is only installed
> on systems where Java isn't already available.
> 
> [Speaking of which, I would think we should stop doing that; Java has
> been part of the base OS for years and I would be surprised if all of
> our Java ports really work with Kaffe instead. Does Kaffe itself even
> work nowadays?]

Lion is the beginning of the end for Apple-supplied Java. So maybe we'll
need our own again soon. I think I saw kaffe fail on buildbot, so it's
either broken or missing dependencies, on 10.6 at least.

- Josh