Well, Oracle has announced a few months ago that there only will be one JDK platform, based on OpenJDK. So, technically speaking RH has no other choice, because IcedTea sucks big time ;/
Cos On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 12:46PM, Jos Backus wrote: > Hi, > > This post, > https://www.zarb.org/pipermail/jpackage-discuss/2011-December/014781.html, > and this post, > https://www.zarb.org/pipermail/jpackage-discuss/2011-December/014774.html, > by David Walluck, one of the JPackage maintainers, suggests that > RedHat is moving to OpenJDK: > > "I used to rewrite and try to submit notes here for JDK 1.6 > integration with RHEL 5, but thank you goddess, Red Hat and Oracle > have worked out a decent deal to make OpenJDK the new standard and > integrate suport much more effectively." > > "Finally, Red Hat seems to have largely switched to OpenJDK. This is > what JPackage is using for builds as well. There has been no need to > build a nosrc.rpm for a while now, assuming you're willing to give up > the Oracle JDK for the OpenJDK in your base OS." > > How do people here feel about this move? > > Jos > -- > Jos Backus > jos at catnook.com
