Plans for IcedTea6 1.11

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

Some features I would like to see in 1.11 and issues that should be fixed.
I'd expect 1.11 to appear in July/August; we've had an over-long development
period for 1.10 (Sep-Mar).

* 'make install' 
  http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=94
  It should be possible for an end user to install the resulting JDK image,
  rather than having this solely devolved to distros (distros are of course still welcome
  to do their own thing and not use it).  This includes:
    - cacerts generation: http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26
* OpenJDK6 b23
  I expect this to be out in time.  It should include HotSpot 20 which is already supported
  in HEAD, and will be switched to be the default shortly.
* Update JTreg in IcedTea: http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=656
  This has been needed for a while.

Possibles:

* Remove ct.sym.  ct.sym is a 15mb file which hides a number of classes from the user
  when using javac in a very unintuitive way.  We should consider whether it would be
  worth removing this.  It can already be disabled by the magic -XDignore.symbol.file=true.
  See http://andrew-haley.livejournal.com/
* Use system timezone data on build rather than the in-tree (and probably outdated) version.
* Use system LCMS (needs v2 and OpenJDK7 backport).

Please propose any other features you'd like to see in 1.11 and/or give your thoughts on those
above.
-- 
Andrew :)

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