IcedTea for Java 8

[Guillaume Alaux]

On 3 April 2014 08:15, dalibor.topic at oracle.com
<dalibor.topic at oracle.com> wrote:
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> And if you have questions about the up streaming process for 8u, let me know directly, here or on jdk8u-dev.
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> Cheers,
> Dalibor
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> On 02.04.2014, at 23:36, Omair Majid <omajid at redhat.com> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> * Guillaume Alaux <guillaume at alaux.net> [2014-03-30 14:43]:
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> 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.
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>
> 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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Great, thank you very much.

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Guillaume