Supporting IcedTea7

[Andrew Hughes]

----- Original Message -----
> On 02/15/2012 05:01 AM, Andrew Hughes wrote:
> > Our support for IcedTea7 seems to be lacking, despite it becoming
> > the
> > primary release (and the only one on Fedora 17 on). During this
> > release cycle, I've noticed several cases of patches being in
> > IcedTea6 but not in IcedTea7, and developers on IRC have been
> > hitting
> > basic build issues, despite the release having occurred about four
> > months ago.
> > 
> > I'd like to suggest that we switch to a similar policy to OpenJDK
> > (Dalibor calls it the 'no fix left behind' policy) where fixes for
> > IcedTea6 have to go into IcedTea7 first.  I think this will make it
> > less likely that things will get missed and should concentrate
> > people's minds on the new 7 series rather than 6.
> > 
> 
> Perhaps this should be extended all the way: patches/fixes have to go
> into the latest IcedTea (or OpenJDK) before they can be added to 7 or
> 6.
> Otherwise we will just run into this problem when 8 is released.
> 

Yeah, that's what I was aiming for.  But small steps... getting people
developing on 7 would be a good start!  There's a big disconnect between
Oracle hacking on 8 and us hacking on 6 and we need to work on this.

> Cheers,
> Omair
> 
> 
> 

-- 
Andrew :)

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