Re: [SECURITY] IcedTea 2.1.8 for OpenJDK 7 Released!

[Jacob Wisor]

"Andrew Hughes"<gnu.andrew at xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> > On 05/02/2013 01:02 PM, Jacob Wisor wrote:
> > > "Andrew John Hughes"<gnu_andrew at xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 ;)

I am sorry, should I have upset you. My intention was not to be picky. The term just seems funny to me, since it reminds me of people with beliefs in esoterism that simply is incompatible with computer science (which infact is a science) or meta-physics, that bothers about some kind of non-existent architecture that still abides by logic. As for the announcement itself, I do not want to impose anything.

Have fun! :)
Jacob