Announcing IcedTea8

[Mark Wielaard]

On Tue, 2011-07-12 at 10:31 +0100, Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> The repository http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea is now tracking OpenJDK8
> (or will be once it is updated to use the correct repositories).
> 
> OpenJDK7 support is branched off into http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea7.

Great, thanks Andrew.

> Forests for both OpenJDK7 & OpenJDK8 are on the IcedTea server but we'll currently
> be reverting back to the OpenJDK servers until the issue with .hg_archival.txt is
> fixed.  At present, checksums are broken by any update to the tree which is
> unacceptable for releases.

Andrew already found and fixed it. So just for the archives (pun
intended), the following setting got changed from True to False:

[ui]
# Whether to include the .hg_archival.txt file containing meta data
# (hashes for the repository base and for tip) in archives created
# by the :hg:`archive` command or downloaded via hgweb.
# Default is True.
archivemeta=False