Re: Project status

[Anthony Green <green@redhat.com>]

I don't believe this project is actively maintained or supported, but
I'm adding somebody on copy who may know otherwise.

AG


Tiago Daitx <tiago.daitx@canonical.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I have been trying to follow up on Mauve and to build it, but that has
> not been working really well.
>
> First of all, the project is lacking a web presence, it seems dead
> outside the CVS repo. Most of the links from the main page at
> sourceware [1] are not working:
>
> - "Download" [2] points to nightly snapshots [3] which is empty
> - "CVS" [4] points to the cvsweb [5] which then redirects to a
> repository listing [6] where mauve is missing
> - The mailing lists archives seem to indicate some activity
> (month/year links which seem to skip periods with no activity), but
> clicking on the respective month/year leads to a "No messages here";
> the exception here is a single message in mauve-patches for 2017 that
> seems pretty much like spam
>
> Checking out CVS repository does show that the last commits are dated
> 8/April/2016.
>
> The README seems to be out of date, as some arguments for the
> configure script have been removed on a previous commit
> (--with-bootclasspath, --with-gcj).
>
> Trying to run the testsuite (java Harness) brings up lots of errors
> when using the autocompile.
>
> Trying to compile the gnu/testlet testsuite before hand will also
> throw out errors with both gcj as well as openjdk.
>
> For gcj-5 (full log at [7]):
> $ cd gnu/testlet
> $ /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj/bin/javac -nowarn -cp ../../:. .
> ...
> 148 problems (148 errors)
>
> For openjdk-8 (full log at [8]):
> $ cd gnu/testlet
> $ find -name '*.java' -type f | sort -u > java_files
> $ javac -cp /usr/share/java/libgcj-5.jar:../../:. -g -source 1.5
> -target 1.5 -nowarn @java_files
> ...
> 32 errors
>
> Trying to run the tests after compiling also does not work that well,
> lots of errors like:
> FAIL: gnu.java.security.hash.TestOfHashFactory
>   line 42: TestOfHashFactory [1] -- uncaught exception:
>    java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: gnu/java/security/hash/HashFactory
>
> even though /usr/share/java/libgcj-5.jar is in the classpath and
> contains the class.
>
> It would be nice if I could get some pointers on what I'm doing wrong
> and on whether the project is still being supported.
>
> Best regards,
> Tiago
>
> [1] https://www.sourceware.org/mauve/
> [2] https://www.sourceware.org/mauve/download.html
> [3] ftp://sourceware.org/pub/mauve/snapshot/
> [4] https://www.sourceware.org/mauve/cvs.html
> [5] http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/?cvsroot=mauve
> [6] https://sourceware.org/viewvc
> [7] https://pastebin.ubuntu.com/24054344/
> [8] https://pastebin.ubuntu.com/24054354/