Support Status of IcedTea 2.x Releases

[Martin Buchholz]

Thanks for your great work on this.
I'm trying to understand the release/build model for icedtea, and it's a
little confusing.
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I can't find good documentation on the various kinds of icedtea changes.
Upstreamed changes are easy to understand, but there's changes to
icedtea7-forest-2.4, patches in icedtea7-2.4/patches, and patches in
icedtea7-2.4/boot/patches
Is it true that boot/patches are only used when --disable-bootstrap=no?
Why would patches end up in icedtea7-forest-2.4 rather than in
icedtea7-2.4/patches?
The icedtea7 forests aren't well advertised.  Are they supposed to be an
implementation detail?
Is building them independently as just another openjdk a
reasonable/supported thing to do?
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icedtea7-2.4/INSTALL refers to
(http://hg.openjdk.java.net/icedtea/jdk7/).
but that looks obsolete.
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is the use of the word "creat" a typo or a Unix in-joke?
> Most targets in IcedTea creat stamp files in the stamps directory to
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Thanks.



On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 3:45 AM, Andrew Hughes <gnu.andrew at redhat.com>wrote:

> This is an update on the status of the various IcedTea 2.x releases,
> following
> the release of 2.4.0 (http://bitly.com/11Bzajd).
>
> * The 2.1.x series will remain supported until the ARM32 JIT is available
> in a
> later release.  This should be true of at least the 2.3.x series by the
> end of
> the year.
> * The 2.2.x series will be updated as part of the next security update (due
> in just over a week on the 18th/19th of June, 2013, depending on what
> timezone
> you're in).  After that, it will no longer be supported.
> * The 2.3.x and 2.4.x series will be supported until the release of 2.5.0
> and 2.6.0 respectively.
>
> This information has now been included on our release policy page:
>
> http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/ReleasePolicy
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Andrew :)
>
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> Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com)
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