Supporting IcedTea7

[Omair Majid]

On 02/15/2012 05:01 AM, Andrew Hughes wrote:
> Our support for IcedTea7 seems to be lacking, despite it becoming the
> primary release (and the only one on Fedora 17 on). During this
> release cycle, I've noticed several cases of patches being in
> IcedTea6 but not in IcedTea7, and developers on IRC have been hitting
> basic build issues, despite the release having occurred about four
> months ago.
> 
> I'd like to suggest that we switch to a similar policy to OpenJDK
> (Dalibor calls it the 'no fix left behind' policy) where fixes for
> IcedTea6 have to go into IcedTea7 first.  I think this will make it
> less likely that things will get missed and should concentrate
> people's minds on the new 7 series rather than 6.
> 

Perhaps this should be extended all the way: patches/fixes have to go
into the latest IcedTea (or OpenJDK) before they can be added to 7 or 6.
Otherwise we will just run into this problem when 8 is released.

Cheers,
Omair