Re: Status of Java support and Guile conversion?

[Simon Richter]

Roland,

> I have done a few searches to ascertain the state of Java support for 
> the automake/autoconf tools which have been, in the past, difficult to 
> use in a Java or mixed environment (we're mostly using Jam, right now). 

Over here. I need Java support for myself, so I'm working on integrating
it into automake properly (and probably without breaking the existing
interface), but I'm not overly happy with the new interface[1], and I
need to understand all the inner workings first.

> Although I have seen some activity it's unclear if there is any type of 
> focused effort under way to fully integrate Java builds and what that 
> status of that effort is - specifically, is there anything out there 
> that we could try our hands on.

Not yet, since I don't fully grok the current version yet (I'm not
overly fluent in perl).

> During the searches I also came across a remark along the lines that 
> autoconf/automake would be re-written in Guile. Didn't find anything 
> else, but that is pretty exciting. I'm currently fixing and extending 
> the old greg library (sort of a simple expect for Guile) to run with the 
> latest Guile release and drive our automated test suite. Anyone have any 
> info on this effort?

You probably mean Arc[2].

   Simon

[1] http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2003-02/msg00151.html
[2] http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/arc/

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