[Zope] Java Port

smoerk@gmx.de smoerk@gmx.de" <smoerk@gmx.de
Wed, 03 Nov 1999 10:22:53 +0100


>> Did anyone try to compile Zope with JPython?
>
>Nope, and it would require large amounts of C code be ported from the rather
>easy CPython/C interface to JNI, which is to be kind, baroque and obtuse.

It would be silly to use C code in a Java port. We have to port the C
code to Java code is it impossible or not efficient to implement the C
parts in Java?

>If
>someone wishes to do this, we certainly wouldn't stop them, but it's not a
>strategic direction for us at this point, and therefore we have no resources
>to dedicate to it.

:-)