FYI: Proprietary Oracle JDK 7u10

[Mario Torre]

Il giorno mer, 12/12/2012 alle 12.21 -0500, Andrew Hughes ha scritto:
> As discussed on the OpenJDK 6 lists:
> 
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk7u-dev/2012-September/004630.html
> 
> Oracle have released a proprietary update for 7, u10, for which there is no corresponding OpenJDK release.
> 
> http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/7u-relnotes-515228.html
> 
> The next OpenJDK release will be u12.

Hi Andrew,

That's just my opinion, of course, but the features in the release notes
seems all to be related with Applets and Deployment, which are not areas
covered by OpenJDK.

Even if a release with the same id would be welcomed for OpenJDK, it
doesn't seem that any of the advertised fixes have any impact or meaning
for OpenJDK at all, so the fact that Oracle released a JDK version
targeted at OSX and Windows doesn't leave us either exposed or behind in
any way, unless I'm reading it incorrectly, of course.

Cheers,
Mario