Proposed IcedTea6-1.5 Release

[Joseph D. Darcy]

Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> 2009/5/1 Mark Wielaard <mjw at redhat.com>:
>   
>> On Fri, 2009-05-01 at 09:37 -0400, Lillian Angel wrote:
>>     
>>> I would like to have a release in the new future, which includes the new
>>> b16 update and several important improvements to the plugin.
>>>
>>> Any objections or suggestions?
>>>       
>> I am working on some small bugs/improvements to the new
>> --enable-systemtap functionality that Andrew and Matthias pointed out,
>> which, which I hope to get in by Monday.
>> http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=328
>>
>> --enable-systemtap is disabled by default, so it isn't a blocker, but it
>> would be nice to have it working an as many setups as possible.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>
>>     
>
> We should really take the opportunity to clean things up for this
> release namely:
>
> * Remove the defunct gcjwebplugin which doesn't build any more
> * Remove the SNMP stubs as it is has been possible to build without
> these for over a year
> * Likewise, we should be able to build with the b16 default of
> IMPORT_BINARY_PLUGS=false
>   

Yes, the goal remains to remove the plugs from the upstream JDK so it 
would be preferable if IcedTea did not rely on that mechanism in the build.

-Joe