IcedTea for Java 8

Guillaume Alaux guillaume at alaux.net
Mon Mar 31 11:33:21 UTC 2014


On 31 March 2014 11:54, Andrew Hughes <gnu.andrew at redhat.com> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> On 18 March 2014 18:32, Andrew Hughes <gnu.andrew at redhat.com> wrote:
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> >> 2014-03-18 17:54, Naaman Newbold skrev:
>> >> > Pardon the interruption, but are there plans for IcedTea support for
>> >> > Java
>> >> > 8?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> The following hg currently builds OpenJDK 8 using IcedTea 3.
>> >> http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea/
>> >>
>> >> IcedTea 3 with OpenJDK 8 support is still unreleased.
>> >>
>> >> Cheers
>> >> Xerxes
>> >>
>> >
>> > Yes, we'll have a 3.0 release eventually, probably based on u20. Currently,
>> > 6 & 7 occupy most of our time as this is what people are actively using.
>> >
>> > We do plan to scale back 6 & 7 support soon to allow more resources for 8;
>> > more on this to come.
>> > --
>> > Andrew :)
>> >
>> > Free Java Software Engineer
>> > Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com)
>> >
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>> >
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> 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.
>> Do you have an idea of when this release could happen? I am definitely
>> not urging you of course! Just trying to plan things :)
>>
>
> Hopefully in the next month. It depends how involved the security errata
> is next month.
>
>> Also, what is the "u20" you mentionned referring to? Because the
>> Makefile.am of the repository looks like this
>>
>> OPENJDK_VERSION = b80
>> ...
>> JDK_UPDATE_VERSION = $(shell echo $(OPENJDK_VERSION) | sed -e "s/^b//")
>>
>> So if I read it correctly this would create a u80 build right? I may
>> be confusing update numbers.
>
> That's b80 (build 80) of u00 (update 0). Oracle seem to now be on b05 of u20:
>
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u
>
> Basically, there doesn't seem much point targetting something that's already
> been and gone, so we'll aim for the next update.
>
> I agree Oracle's version numbers are very confusing :)
> It's why we keep we a traditional 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, etc.
>
>>
>> [0] http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea/
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> --
>> Guillaume
>>
>
> --
> Andrew :)
>
> Free Java Software Engineer
> Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com)
>
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>

Great, thank you very much for these clarifications.

--
Guillaume


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