The Death of IcedTea?

[Andrew Haley]

On 02/01/2013 01:30 PM, Andrew Hughes 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.

There's not much there that I can disagree with.

Every day that IcedTea continues to exist marks a failure of OpenJDK.
It should be possible for OpenJDK itself to work with CACAO.  It
should be possible for OpenJDK to have an easy-to-use test suite.
Maybe OpenJDK should have a plugin.  Etc, etc.

And finally, it should be just as easy to work in OpenJDK as it is in
IcedTea.  But as we all know, it isn't.  We need to keep working on
that.

I'm not sure that I agree that getting security fixes out to users
requires IcedTea: it just requires those fixes to be committed to the
7 update tree a bit more promptly.  We could do that in the community.

For OpenJDK 8, there should be no reason (with the exception of ARM,
CACAO, et al.) that we need to package anything other then the
upstream release, We need to be packaging development OpenJDK 8 builds
in the meantime to make sure this works.

Andrew.