The Death of IcedTea?

[Andrew Hughes]

----- Original Message -----
> On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Andrew Hughes
> <gnu.andrew at redhat.com> wrote:
> > My thoughts on the future of #IcedTea:
> > http://blog.fuseyism.com/index.php/2013/02/01/the-death-of-icedtea/
> >
> > Thoughts, comments, flames, etc. very much welcomed.  Please pass
> > onto others who may be interested.
> >
> > A brief disclaimer that these are my personal thoughts, and not
> > necessarily those of Red Hat.
> 
> Moving work upstream to OpenJDK is the Right Thing(TM) ;) to do. So
> +1 for that.
> Like you say, IcedTea can continue to exist for alternative JVM
> implementations like Cacao etc.
> 

Depends how you define 'work'; technically the patches can go upstream
(very slowly) but my main worry is there is a lot lacking on the organisation
side in OpenJDK.  Still no bug DB for one thing ;)

> I´m not sure what the big fuss about OpenJDK 6 going on forever is. I
> mean... people should use the latest greatest JVM available. What´s
> the point of continuing maintaining openjdk 6?? It´s akin to people
> still using JDK 1.4 or Microsoft .net 1.0

The move from 6 to 7 broke a lot of packages just in Fedora.  Making such
a move requires people to make a lot of investment in porting for little
gain.  There'll probably be more of a draw with 8 than 7. With it coming
so soon after 7, and there being so little change in 7, I guess a lot
of people would rather wait.

> 
> FC
> 

-- 
Andrew :)

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