Source releases questions

[Andrew Hughes]

----- Original Message -----
> On 06/12/2013 07:50 PM, Andrew Hughes wrote:
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Some questions:
> >>
> >> 1) are there any estimates for openjdk6 source release?
> >>
> >> 2) is current tip from mercurial [1] safe for production usage (I've
> >> tested points 2 and 3 from release process doc [2] but I'm not sure
> >> about point 4 (TCK))
> >>
> >> My current employer uses openjdk6 build 27 (with copyMemory patch) for
> >> server-side apps and we want to upgrade to version with latest security
> >> patches (and we are not ready for jdk7).
> >>
> >>
> >> [1] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk6/jdk6/
> >> [2] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk6/jdk6/raw-file/tip/ReleaseProcess.html
> >>
> >> --
> >> Regards,
> >> Alex Kasko
> >>
> >
> > For a more immediate solution, I suggest you look at using the latest
> > IcedTea
> > release, as all the GNU/Linux distributions do:
> >
> > http://blog.fuseyism.com/index.php/2013/04/25/security-icedtea-1-11-11-1-12-5-for-openjdk-6-released/
> >
> > It has the latest security fixes and many backports from OpenJDK 7 that
> > also
> > went into the proprietary Oracle release of 6 but haven't yet made it into
> > OpenJDK 6.
> Thanks, it seems IcedTea 1.12 is the best option. But I was not able to
> build it on windows-i586 (got AWT error) - I'll ask about it on
> distro-pkg-dev list.

Great; I think you may be the first person I've heard of trying it on windows-i586 :)
If there are issues, we'll do what we can to fix them.

BTW, the copy memory patch is present on IcedTea HEAD.  We could look at backporting it
to the next 1.12.x release.

> 
> 
> --
> Regards,
> Alex Kasko
> 

-- 
Andrew :)

Free Java Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com)

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