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

[Blair Zajac]

On Aug 16, 2011, at 4:09 PM, Joshua Root wrote:

> 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.

Last I heard that Oracle will be supplying Java as part of OpenJDK.  Is that still accurate?

Blair