Fwd: Official and community supported build platforms for JDK 8 and 9

[Chris Newland]

Thanks Dalibor.

I think you're right that the test status / hg version are not actually
that useful to report.

Debian 7's gcc 4.7.2 is a year behind Ubuntu's gcc 4.8.2 and I think there
will be enough variation in the rest of the toolchain to report it
separately.

Cheers,

Chris

On Wed, November 26, 2014 18:25, dalibor topic wrote:
>

>
> On 24.11.2014 22:05, Chris Newland wrote:
>
>> Hi Martijn,
>>
>>
>> Looks good. How about a column for whether the OpenJDK tests pass?
>>
>
> That's not as useful in practice as it may seem, as some regression
> tests will/may fail anyway, so you'll always have a 'no' in that column.
>
> See
> http://download.java.net/openjdk/testresults/7/testresults.html?q=download
> /openjdk/testresults/7/testresults.html
> for an example and details.
>
>> Maybe a
>> date column or hg version tag so we know what version of the OpenJDK
>> codebase it built against?
>
> Date and/or hg version tag wouldn't necessarily be sufficient to
> identify a specific cumulative set of changes in a forest accurately. I
> think that would be much too specific, in any case.
>
>>
>> I'm happy to volunteer reporting build status for Debian (7 & 8) if
>> that's useful?
>
> I think it could be worth reporting if the results differed from those
> obtained on Ubuntu.
>
> The interesting question there is if that's sufficiently different from
> Ubuntu, which is already on the page. There are many superficially
> different, yet still quite alike (for the purpose of building OpenJDK)
> Linux distributions.
>
>
>> One last question - for me OpenJDK is only useful when it includes
>> OpenJFX. I've got some Debian scripts for building both and installing
>> JFX
>> into the JDK image. Happy to donate those if useful?
>
> I assume that the best place to discuss the contents of and improvements
> to OpenJDK packages on Debian GNU/Linux is the respective Debian packaging
> mailing list - I assume that's still debian-java :
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-java/
>
>
>> I saw the OpenJFX 9-dev repo was recently opened. Is part of the
>> Adoption
>> group mission to promote OpenJFX?
>
> OpenJFX is an OpenJDK Project, so - sure.
>
>
> cheers, dalibor topic
>
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