Branching structure for IcedTea7 forest for updates

[Deepak Bhole]

* Dr Andrew John Hughes <ahughes at redhat.com> [2011-12-19 21:36]:
> On 20:43 Mon 19 Dec     , Deepak Bhole wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Now that jdk7u2 is out, we need to start thinking of updating the
> > icedtea7 forest with the changes.
> > 
> 
> We already did.  See this thread:
> 
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2011-December/016471.html
> 

Doh! Vacation + changing thread subject == no good for me :/

> > Currently we have icedtea7-forest (HEAD) and icedtea7-forest-2.0
> > (released).
> > 
> > For 7u2, I propose committing changes to it icedtea7-forest HEAD and
> > then branching it into icedtea7-forest-2.2.
> > 
> > I realize that this skips 2.1, however it makes the versioning cleaner
> > as we end up with a 1:1 correspondence with JDK update numbers. The same
> > can apply for IcedTea7 itself.
> > 
> > Thoughts/objections/other ideas?
> > 
> 
> No, this makes no sense; I've already replied on this point here:
> 
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2011-December/016472.html
> 
> There is no good reason to create a non-sensical versioning system for IcedTea
> itself.  The u2 versioning should be represented in the java version:
> 
> java version "1.7.0_02"
> 
> > It will be nicer to eventually just make it icedtea-forest-<jdk ver>.x
> > (e.g. icedtea-forest-8.x for jdk8) but that will need more discussion
> > as a corresponding 'icedtea' already exists.
> 
> OpenJDK 8 is already supported by the IcedTea 3.0 series.
> 

Thanks, I will take a look at your reply and reply to that thread if
there are any issues.

Cheers,
Deepak

> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Deepak
> 
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