[SECURITY] IcedTea 2.1.8 for OpenJDK 7 Released!

[Andrew Hughes]

----- Original Message -----
> "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.

No, not at all; it takes a lot to upset me ;)  It's interesting, that's all I was saying.

> 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.
> 

That is indeed where the word comes from, but we use it in a general sense of
architectures used by a small number of people with specialist use cases.

> Have fun! :)
> Jacob
> 

You too! :)
-- 
Andrew :)

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