libjgrapht-java and contrib

[Steffen Moeller]

Hello,

Daniel Leidert wrote:
> 
> Am Dienstag, den 03.03.2009, 11:08 +0100 schrieb Steffen Moeller: 
>> Daniel Leidert wrote:
>>> I'm wondering about the move of libjgrapht-java to contrib. In
>>> README.Debian you say, that it doesn't build with gcj. I now tried to
>>> build the software.
>>>
>>> Version 0.6 builds fine with gcj. Why has it been moved to contrib too?
>>> There is BTW no note in the changelog about this move!
>> this is clearly a mistake, then. It should be corrected.

> Ok.

I have just done it, but some .jar files I had forgotten in the just uploaded source tree.
I asked our ftpadmins to remove those and will then reupload.

>>> Version 0.7 fails, because the javadoc task doesn't support source=1.5.
>>> But what about simply setting source=1.4 for the javadoc task in
>>> build.xml? It issues some complaints, but builds fine.
>> sounds good to me. I did not have the idea. The jgrapht home page now explicitly mentions
>> a dependency on Java 6 for the 0.8 version, or at least has mentioned that. They all seem
>> to compile nicely with openjdk, there is hence no need to have anything in contrib,
>> whatsoever.
> 
> Ok.

The later jgrapht libraries have a bit more to work on until they are ready. For instance
there is a touchgraph library touchgraph.sourceforge.net which we need for it. I would
prefer not to work on it for the moment.

Cheers,

Steffen