The Road to 1.10

[Deepak Bhole]

* Dr Andrew John Hughes <ahughes at redhat.com> [2010-10-21 06:29]:
> OpenJDK b21 should be available sometime in the next month or so.  I'd
> like us to release IcedTea6 1.10 about a week after, allowing time for
> testing, etc.
> 
> With the change to HotSpot 19 as default (added on Tuesday), current
> IcedTea6 HEAD is now pretty much inline with b21, through this and our
> other patches.  So the b21 bump will be just a matter of switching to
> the new tarball.  You can track progress on b21 using the hg branch:
> http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea6-hg.
> 
> Major changes in 1.10:
> 
> * Upgrade to HotSpot 19 (on HEAD) and OpenJDK6 b21 (imminent)
> * NetX and plugin removed; now in the IcedTea6 web project (on HEAD)
> * Shark removed; part of HotSpot 19 (on the hg branch).
> * Split of --with-openjdk into --with-jdk-home and --disable-bootstrap options (on HEAD).
> 
> I plan on doing a long-delayed sweep of patch and macro names for consistency,
> but other than that, any further build changes will now be delayed until 1.11.
> 
> When b21 is released, we'll switch to it on HEAD and then branch for testing of 1.10.
> 
> Deepak, I'd like the first release of IcedTea-Web (1.0) to happen in the same timeframe
> (preferably before the 1.10 release) so we don't end up with an orphaned plugin and NetX
> implementation.  For my part, I still need to add some configure checks and documentation
> generation to the repository which I'll try and get done over the next week.

Agreed. I think it'd be good to release a 1.0 for the plugin/webstart to coincide 
with icedtea 1.10 as well. There have been some nice improvements since
1.9 in the plugin and webstart, worthy of a tag.

Cheers,
Deepak

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