icedtea use

[Leonel]

On Nov 1, 2007 4:05 AM, Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> wrote:
> 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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The last one

is there a road map for a production ready icedtea ?

thank you

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Leonel