icedtea use

[Andrew Haley]

Leonel writes:
 > On Oct 31, 2007 5:27 PM, Mario Torre <neugens at limasoftware.net> wrote:
 > > Il giorno lun, 29/10/2007 alle 12.19 +0000, Andrew Haley ha scritto:
 > >
 > > > Security updates are more a matter for the distros than for IcedTea
 > > > itself, which is distributed as source.  I'm sure that Fedora will
 > > > handle security updates to IcedTea in just the same way as security
 > > > updates to anything else.  Bear in mind that IcedTea has not been
 > > > tested for Java compatibility.
 > >
 > > I would also add that IcedTea is based on a not finalized version of
 > > OpenJDK. This means that even if IcedTea is shown to be 100% compatible
 > > with OpenJDK, the API can change at any update, so I suggest to not rely
 > > on 1.7 methods and features.
 > 
 > Let me be be more clear
 > 
 > I know icedtea is not yet complete as a 1.7 but is 1.6 the security
 > updates and updates in general are handled as any other project as
 > apache httpd server to mention one, I mean there are security
 > updates ?? .

I expect the distros will provide security updates as required, but
that's up to the distros.

 > and is icedtea ready for production with 1.6 compatibility

No.  IcedTea is based on an open pre-release of Java 1.7.  It isn't
Java 1.6 compatible.

Andrew.

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