New IcedTea6 major release (1.7)

[Andrew John Hughes]

2009/12/10 Mark Wielaard <mark at klomp.org>:
> On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 17:29 +0000, 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.
>
> Yes, definitely has been too long since there has been a new release.
>
>> 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.
>
> I like early and often. I don't mind waiting a bit longer, but there is
> nothing wrong with doing a quick release now and then do another in a
> few weeks.
>

So do I.  Does anyone have any objections to me creating a major
branch on Monday for 1.7?  In retrospect, I'd rather we base 1.7 on
the more stable base we have now.  Believe me, there are quite a few
changes in b18!

>> What other features would people like to see in a release?  What
>> things are we waiting on?  The new plugin springs to mind.
>
> Stuff I have been working on that is already in is the hotspot jni
> tapset support. Jon has been writing some scripts using that, so that is
> nicely tested already. Might be nice to have some of those example
> scripts also in the distro, Jon? But they can be shipped later
> separately also.
>
> The other stuff I have been working on is the systemtap jstack support I
> posted about last week. I think that is basically ready, but it needs a
> new systemtap release to be usable. It just doesn't work (although the
> build will be fine) with older systemtap releases. It also could be
> added/used separately (as long as icedtea is build with configure
> --enable-systemtap). So it isn't really release critical.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark
>
>



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