Proposed IcedTea6-1.5 Release

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi Andrew,

On Fri, 2009-05-01 at 21:37 +0100, Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> We should really take the opportunity to clean things up for this
> release namely:

Although I am very much in favor of cleanups, right before a release
might not be the ideal time to push them through. If we want to do a
release this week, we might consider postponing the cleanups to after
the release, unless you have cleanup patches already tested.

> * Remove the defunct gcjwebplugin which doesn't build any more

This seems safe to do. It already defaults to no in configure.

Note that there is also a patch necessary so that IcedTeaPlugin can be
build against xulrunner 1.9 (firefox 3.0) and xulrunner 1.9.1 (firefox
3.1/3.5). I believe Deepak has one. If not I could write one. It seems
important to have this fixed (it should be a simple one-liner check for
the applet_viewer_process->Run call in IcedTeapPlugin.cc).

> * Remove the SNMP stubs as it is has been possible to build without
> these for over a year

If you have a simple patch to do this, please post it.

> * Likewise, we should be able to build with the b16 default of
> IMPORT_BINARY_PLUGS=false

That would be nice, but icedtea currently relies on that mechanism to
build the "plugs" that we feel are also part of the JSDK (plugin and
webstart), even though they aren't in openjdk. This might be less safe
to do right before the release. But if you have a patch to make it so,
please do propose it.

Cheers,

Mark