preparing a icedtea-1.3 release?

[Andrew John Hughes]

On 23:17 Sun 28 Sep     , Mark Wielaard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, 2008-09-28 at 17:48 +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
> > The last icedtea release 1.2 (bases on b09) was four months ago. I would like to
> > prepare a 1.3 release based ob b12. are there currently outstanding issues?
> 
> Good idea. There have been lots of improvements since the last official
> 1.2 release. Including various security and crasher issues, that we
> really should make sure are picked up by the various distros.
>

Lillian already mentioned she is working on this in her blog.

http://langel.wordpress.com/2008/09/24/women-in-foss/

This really should have been sent to distro-pkg-dev as well.
 
> >  - general?
> 
> I would like to get the better version reporting in that you and andrew
> suggested. Andrew already has something in icedtea[7].
> 

With 7 it currently gives:

java version "1.7.0_0"
IcedTea 1.8-pre-r1226 Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_0-b36)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 1.7.0_0-b36, mixed mode)

Releases built from a tarball would simplify to just IcedTea 1.8 (for example).
The revision is automatically picked up if the source directory is a Mercurial
repository, and the other part is taken from configure.

The other related patch adds support for a custom version tag giving:

$ java -version
java version "1.6.0-gentoo"
IcedTea6 1.2 Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0-gentoo-b09)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 1.6.0-b09, mixed mode)

(I applied the patch to the Gentoo ebuilds for IcedTea6)

IcedTea6, unlike IcedTea7, seems to have dropped using IcedTea at all
in favour of OpenJDK, which I feel is confusing, given we are patching
the resulting build so much.

> >  - cacao?
> >  - icedtea plugin?
> >  - zero/shark?
> 
> Lets make sure that cacao and zero/shark are synced and the default
> configure options set. Deepak, do you feel the liveconnect/icedteaplugin
> support is ready for being enabled by default?
> 

Would be nice if twisti released his latest stuff so the build was against
0.99.4 or whatever.  I believe he has some related fixes.

> > If possible I aim for a release candidate for the next weekend and for a final
> > release in about two weeks.
> 
> I'll work on some release notes to summarize all the new stuff.
> 

As I've said before, I'll merge and follow this with a 1.8 for IcedTea7.
It would be nice to get the NIO support in before this.

> Cheers,
> 
> Mark
> 

Cheers,
-- 
Andrew :)

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