Hakuna Matata, Tony Wyatt!
Some years ago I updated the OS3.9 68k port of Kaffe and made the interpreter and JIT engines wok properly. Since then the code base has changed and I will go back to it again when I can build it on OS4. Hopefully some of the new tools will make that possible soon.
Amazing how many great side-projects we are discovering thanks to this port! Seems that at some point we will have:
- a proper Python port
- APR (so Apache2 much closer)
- SVN
Well, possibly, anyway. If we go the way of OO.org 1.9-2.0, which I think we should. By the time we're done familiarizing with the code and porting all the dependencies, it'll be close to (or even passed) release date...
- and now it seems that someone would like to take care of an updated
Kaffe
Don't forget Aspell. I've spoken to Claus Desler, who just the other day announced that he was working on a "professional" text editor. He seemed to think his project was doomed now that we're gonna try OO.org, but I told him not to worry. OO.org is way too clunky for Amigans, I see it purely as a means to get a bit more mainstream. Same with Mozilla, really. It's nice to have the same applications as the rest of the world, but personally I choose Opera on Linux/Windows and a native browser on AmigaOS. Mozilla too clunky... Good for email, though :-) Anyway, he was very likely going to use Aspell at some point, and seems to be on the brink of joining us so we can work together on porting that. I've already started browsing through it, because I think it's a REALLY important application (no, seriously, it is. Virtually any program can benefit from a spell checker. Be it a web browser, an email client, a text editor etc.). So don't be surprised if Claus joins us (like I said to him, at least it'll give you some ideas how NOT to write an efficient text editor :-P )