Proposed IcedTea 6 release

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi Andrew,

On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 16:01 +0100, Andrew Haley wrote:
> I've been talking with Ed Nevill and others, and it looks like the ARM
> bytecode interpreter patch isn't going to be ready in time for this
> release.  So, we might as well cut the release branch now: there wasn't
> anything else we were waiting for, IIRC.

One other item might have been to sync with oj6. But it is unknown
when/if it can be updated and when oj6b17 will actually be released.
IcedTea6 already contains the important bits missing from current oj6
(security updates, updated hotspot).

It would require extra testing though, very recently some changes to the
build were added with respect to the target and source settings of some
of the components (6870641: [langtools] update make/build.* for jdk6,
6870591: langtools build sets javac.bootclasspath incorrectly) some
similar changes in jdk7 seem to cause some subtle problems bootstrapping
icedtea7.

So it might actually be a good idea to skip this oj6 update for now and
branch IcedTea6 now.

Cheers,

Mark