New IcedTea6 major release (1.7)

[Matthias Klose]

On 10.12.2009 18:29, Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> I notice we haven't had a major IcedTea6 release since 1.6 in
> September.  I think it's time to at least consider when we want to do
> so.
>
> HEAD is currently on b17, whereas the previous releases are on b16.
> The main feature in b17 was the switch to HotSpot 14 but this was
> already supported by IcedTea6 anyway since 1.4.
>
> My personal preference would be to wait at least until b18, which will
> include the Nimbus backport.  Nimbus is one of the major areas (if not
> only) where OpenJDK still lags the proprietary Sun JDK.  The release
> is fairly imminent; we've been discussing it at some length on
> jdk6-dev: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk6-dev/2009-December/000984.html
>   However, I understand that others may want to delay this until 1.8 if
> a 1.7 is desired sooner, prior to extensive testing of b18.

from a distribution standpoint, b17 will likely not be released as part of a 
Linux distribution (all distros just had their releases), so I would be happy to 
concentrate on b18 instead.

> What other features would people like to see in a release?  What
> things are we waiting on?  The new plugin springs to mind.

do you mean the icedtea npp plugin?

   Matthias