IcedTea6 1.11 has been branched. Release on 2011-01-18.

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

On 11:39 Mon 09 Jan     , Omair Majid wrote:
> On 01/09/2012 08:06 AM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> > On 17:12 Fri 06 Jan     , Omair Majid wrote:
> >> The only known issue is:
> >>     * Shark: http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=701
> >>       From what I have heard, shark is not in the best condition anyway
> >>       thanks to changes in llvm. Unless someone steps up to fix this,
> >>       shark will most likely be broken in the final release too.
> >>
> >
> > As noted previously, I don't think Shark should block the release, unless
> > someone has a reasonable (i.e. this month) ETA for fixing these issues.
> >
> > It's nearly a year since the 1.10 release (2011-03-02) so 1.11 is overdue.
> > There has already been plenty of time for Shark issues to be resolved.
> >
> 
> Yes, I think I am going to remove shark as a blocker from this release. 
> Andrew Haley and Xerxes Rånby seem to be in agreement that a number of 
> factors (hotspot changes + llvm changes) have resulted in shark being 
> very unstable and it will take a while before shark can be stabilized.
> 
> Does anyone have any thoughts about which of the following options is 
> the preferred way to communicate that shark is very unstable?
> 
> 1. Document that shark is not stable explicitly in the release notes 
> (and highlight it too) but leave shark otherwise untouched in the build.
> 
> 2. Disable shark support. --enable-shark will cause configure to fail.
> 

Option 3.  It should be both disabled in configure AND mentioned in the release notes.
Your posted patch does this.

> Thoughts?
> 
> Thanks,
> Omair

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Andrew :)

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