providing native shared libraries of qtjava

[Adeodato Simó]

hi,

[sorry for the crosspost, I'm not sure which list is the appropriate
one. please follow-up to either of them, I'm subscribed.]

as you may or may not know, I've taken over the maintenance of
kdebindings in Debian after Dominique Devriese left.

at the request of an user, I'm adding some documentation bits
(attached) as of how to produce native executables of programs that
make use of qtjava. that procedure includes compiling the qtjava.jar
set of classes into native code, either including it in the executable
or making it into a sepparate shared library.

I've been told by an upstream gcj developer that compiling into native
from bytecode (*.class) and not from source (*.java) is sub-optimal,
and that in fact would make sense to ship a shared native qtjava
library compiled from sources.

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so, my question to the list are specifically these:

(a) if there is a reason why I shouldn't build that shared library
and ship it in the Debian packages

(b) if there is a reason as of why the upstream build system does
not build it by default already and, in case it hasn't been
proposed before, if it would be possible to do so

(c) what would be, if decided to build and ship it, the name of the
library: libqtgcj?, libqtjava-shared?, some other?...

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and that was all, thanks in advance.