IcedTea7 1.10 Release Status

[Andrew John Hughes]

2009/5/29 Andrew John Hughes <gnu_andrew at member.fsf.org>:
> 2009/5/29 Mark Wielaard <mark at klomp.org>:
>> Hi Andrew,
>>
>> On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 14:01 +0100, Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>>> At the moment, I just want to know whether to cut a 'proper' release
>>> or not, given that CACAO is broken (as regards actually running code)
>>> and unlikely to be fixed soon.  Do people still want an IcedTea7
>>> release for J1?
>>
>> I think we are making great progress and would like to see a release
>> before J1. Would it be an idea to shoot for Monday? That gives people
>> time to double check the current release candidate (is it tagged yet?)
>> and possible fix some issues found. It would be sad if the cacao issue
>> isn't fixed before that, but if IcedTea7 1.10 gets released without that
>> will hopefully give people more incentive to fix for the next one. What
>> release steps remain?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>
>
> Other than CACAO, I'm pretty much good to go.  I have a changeset in
> progress which will fix some issues found during makedistcheck and
> which renames --enable-liveconnect to --enable-plugin as you
> suggested.  After that, it's just an update to NEWS, etc.  It should
> be possible to do that in what remains of today, and then let people
> test a branch over the weekend.
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Ok, everything looks ready here and after speaking to doko on IRC
about CACAO, we've agreed that it isn't a blocker for the release
(although we'd of course like to see it fixed).
I'm going to do a final make distcheck and use the resulting tarball
as icedtea 1.10 (following by the appropriate tagging and branch
process).  If anyone has any major objections, please scream now.
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