IcedTea 1.5.2 Released!

[Andrew John Hughes]

2009/9/4 Martin Buchholz <martinrb at google.com>:
> On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 08:55, Lillian Angel<langel at redhat.com> wrote:
>> We are proud to announce the release of IcedTea6 1.5.2.
>>
>> The IcedTea6 project provides a harness to build the source code from
>> OpenJDK6 (http://openjdk.java.net) using Free Software build tools.
>
> You guys are too modest.  A Free Software build environment is only
> one of the goals/priorities that is different from upstream openjdk6.
> Some others that come to mind are:
> - support some platforms not supported by upstream
> - provide/maintain Free Software replacements for proprietary parts of JDK6.
>
> Martin
>

Thanks Martin.  I thought the same when writing the last IcedTea7
announcement and so expanded Lillian's text to say:

The IcedTea project provides a harness to build the source code from
OpenJDK7 using Free Software build tools. It also includes the only
Free Java plugin and Web Start implementation, and support for
additional architectures over and above x86, x86_64 and sparc via the
Zero assembler port and the Shark JIT compiler.

This emphasis the additional platform support and the plugin/javaws
replacements for their proprietary counterparts.

Lillian, you might want to adopt that for the next release.  We should
mention the ARM support too from 1.6 on :)
-- 
Andrew :-)

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