IcedTea for Java 8

[Omair Majid]

Hi,

* Guillaume Alaux <guillaume at alaux.net> [2014-03-30 14:43]:
> We are talking among Arch Linux devs as to what should be shipped in
> our repos (if any) until the IcedTea 3.0 release you mention is out.

I think this depends on what you want to ship. Do you mostly care just
about OpenJDK proper and hotspot? Or are you also interested in all the
additional stuff IcedTea provides (additional ports, VMs)?

If you need all that stuff, then I recommend not shipping anything until
IcedTea 3.0 is out. Current IcedTea 3 is quite old and very incompatible
with OpenJDK8. If you just need OpenJDK 8 proper, then perhaps you can
try shipping OpenJDK 8 itself (with some patches, at least until IcedTea
3 is released).

Over in Fedora, we have packaged OpenJDK 8 directly [1]. It's not as
complete as IcedTea, because various patches from IcedTea are not
upstream yet. We are carrying some IcedTea patches (some directly
copied, some adjusted for 7 -> 8 differences) locally until we can
upstream them.

Thanks,
Omair

[1] http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/java-1.8.0-openjdk.git/tree/java-1.8.0-openjdk.spec#n150

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