RFR: JMC-6561: update Eclipse 4.11 in Prerequisites of update site landing page

Guru guru.hb at oracle.com
Mon Sep 9 09:23:55 UTC 2019


Thank you Marcus & Mario,

Please find updated webrev : http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ghb/JMC-6561/webrev.1 <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ghb/JMC-6561/webrev.1>

Thanks,
Guru
> On 06-Sep-2019, at 12:10 AM, Marcus Hirt <marcus at hirt.se> wrote:
> 
> Hi Guru,
> 
> Would changing to 4.8 be okay for you?
> 
> Kind regards,
> Marcus
> 
> -----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
> Från: jmc-dev <jmc-dev-bounces at openjdk.java.net> För Mario Torre
> Skickat: den 5 september 2019 16:52
> Till: Marcus Hirt <marcus.hirt at datadoghq.com>
> Kopia: jmc-dev at openjdk.java.net
> Ämne: Re: RFR: JMC-6561: update Eclipse 4.11 in Prerequisites of update site landing page
> 
> On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 11:20 AM Marcus Hirt <marcus.hirt at datadoghq.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Yes, we should definitely change to 4.8 for sure. Requiring 4.11 would 
>> be over-constraining in my opinion, but Datadog is not actively 
>> shipping binary builds, so Oracle's (and Red Hat's, Azul's and
>> Bell-Soft's) opinion weigh heavier here. Any thoughts from Red Hat, 
>> Azul and/or Bell-Soft?
> 
> I would like to be more conservative as the fast release cadence of Eclipse is a nightmare for packaging on Linux, a lower baseline is a lot more forgiving, especially on the current version, however I think
> 4.8 should be fine for the moment.
> 
> Jie should know more about the exact versioning as he did the packaging for Fedora and RHEL and may give some better feedback, he is away for a few days however, he will be back after Oracle Code One.
> 
> Cheers,
> Mario
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