Re: [Gnome-print] Re: ghostscript todo

[Nick Moffitt <nick valinux com>]

begin  hamzy@us.ibm.com quotation:
> > Omni is Java, which -- aside from the language/freedom issues --
> > is only portable insofar as you have a JDK on said platoform.
> 
> Omni uses Java as an intermediate step in the build process.  The
> parser (antlr) is written in Java.  It reads text files and produces
> C++ driver code.  The entire Omni core is written in C++.  If you
> just wanted to use Omni to print, you would not need java.  You only
> would use the omni core library and the omni printer driver library.

	Aha, so perhaps jikes may indeed do the job, and we really
don't need to worry about runtime environments and JIT-compilers.

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Nick Moffitt, Professional Services