[SECURITY] IcedTea 2.1.8 for OpenJDK 7 Released!

[Andrew Hughes]

----- Original Message -----
> On 05/02/2013 01:02 PM, Jacob Wisor wrote:
> > "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?
> >
> > [...]
> >   
> > Have a nice day!
> > Jacob
> 
> It's a colourful term, but it makes sense to me. Eg, knowing how to
> support exotic architectures would require knowledge that could be
> described as esoteric, so they can themselves be described as esoteric.
> 

The use of "exotic" is equally odd to me.  It implies "foreign" and makes
me think more of exotic fruits than architectures with small userbases.

Interesting that people should pick up on this now.  I think it's been in
countless release announcements ;)

> Cheers,
> -Adam
> 

-- 
Andrew :)

Free Java Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com)

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