New IcedTea6 major release (1.7)

[Andreas Radke]

Am Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:00:49 +0100
schrieb Matthias Klose <doko at ubuntu.com>:

> 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.

We at ArchLinux are a rolling release distribution and package whatever
will be released as "final".

> > 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
> 

Yes, the new plugin would be nice to have and should be in a usable
state for people using Chromium and other webkit based browsers. That
would be a nice feature. It would be awesome if it would become
possible to build both plugins in one step.

http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=414 - should be
fixed for any release.

-Andy
ArchLinux openjdk package maintainer