If Icedtea-web is the plug-in component for OpenJDK upstream, its name should be openjdk-plugin !

Andrew Haley aph at redhat.com
Mon Apr 16 03:40:30 PDT 2012


On 04/16/2012 11:39 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 07:37, Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>> Maybe, but I am worried that calling the plugin package openjdk-plugin
>> would be misleading: the plugin isn't part of OpenJDK.  And, you might
>> reply that the user doesn't care; but the stakeholders in OpenJDK (or
>> at least some of them) do care.  I'm trying to think of a way around
>> this problem.
> 
> Who in the OpenJDK team would be interested in discussing this?
> Any ideas?

Me.  I am, among other things, a member of the OpenJDK Governing
Board.

Andrew.



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