Am Sun, 30 Mar 2014 11:21:25 +0200 schrieb Guillaume ALAUX <guilla...@archlinux.org>:
> Hi devs, > > A new major version of Java went out recently [0]: "OpenJDK 8" but we > do not have a package for it (for the following reason) and some > Archers are asking questions [1] or flagging our openjdk7 package as > out of date: > > All Linux distros - including Arch - build OpenJDK using the IcedTea > project [2]. Its goal is to cleanly build OpenJDK from Oracle, bring > some more feature and it **was** also to re-implement closed source > parts. I expected IcedTea to quickly release a version for OpenJDK8 > but it seems this is not their first priority [3] (which I totally > understand). Nowadays there is no closed source part anymore in > OpenJDK, and the license is clearly "GPL with classpath exception" > which is a standard in the Java world. > > I have been working on a package based on OpenJDK8 built from source > but without IcedTea that I think would fit to our repos. I still have > some work for it to be released but I would be in favor of pushing > this "OpenJDK without IcedTea" to extra until IcedTea v3.0 stable is > out and could be used to build/augment our package. > > Any thought/objection/remark about? How about using icedtea master bzr shots to build openjdk8 until they publish a release? -Andy
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