[SECURITY] IcedTea 2.1.8 for OpenJDK 7 Released!

Andrew Hughes gnu.andrew at redhat.com
Thu May 2 10:32:49 PDT 2013



----- Original Message -----
> "Andrew John Hughes"<gnu_andrew at member.fsf.org> wrote:
> [...]
> > In addition, IcedTea includes the usual IcedTea patches to allow
> > builds against system libraries and to support more esoteric
> > architectures.
> 
> You probably mean "exotic architectures"... How could an architecture be
> esoteric??? :D Well, maybe those with positive vibrations?
> 


"Understood only by a chosen few or an enlightened inner circle.

    The writing in this manual is very esoteric; I need a degree in engineering just to understand it!

Having to do with concepts that are highly theoretical and without obvious practical application;" [1]

Replace "understood" with "used" ;)

What definition are you using?

There is a typo there though, which I'll correct in the on-line version :)

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/esoteric

> [...]
>  
> Have a nice day!
> Jacob
> 

-- 
Andrew :)

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