On 15:08 Mon 29 Nov , Dalibor Topic wrote: > On 11/26/10 3:54 PM, Andrew Haley wrote: > > On 11/26/2010 02:48 PM, Dalibor Topic wrote: > > >> Hm. It's been a long time since I heard of anyone use the binary plugs for > >> anything. > >> Certainly neither regular OpenJDK builds nor IcedTea builds do. So if they > >> just serve > >> to confuse people to assume they are in some way necessary, maybe we > >> should just remove > >> them from the download site for good. > >> > >> Any objections? > > > > Why bother? People sometimes want to check out and build old versions. > > Constant one time effort that saves non-constant amount of time down the road > answering > questions about binary plugs, as well as time & space spent generating them, > and so on. >
Sounds a very good idea to me. If someone really wants to use old versions of OpenJDK7 (given public OpenJDK6 builds have never needed them to my knowledge), they can use an old release of IcedTea rather than these plugs. > cheers, > dalibor topic > -- > Oracle <http://www.oracle.com> > Dalibor Topic | Java F/OSS Ambassador > Phone: +494023646738 <tel:+494023646738> | | | Mobile: +491772664192 > <tel:+491772664192> > Oracle Java Platform Group > > ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG | Nagelsweg 55 | 20097 Hamburg > > ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG > Hauptverwaltung: Riesstr. 25, D-80992 München > Registergericht: Amtsgericht München, HRA 95603 > > Komplementärin: ORACLE Deutschland Verwaltung B.V. > Rijnzathe 6, 3454PV De Meern, Niederlande > Handelsregister der Handelskammer Midden-Niederlande, Nr. 30143697 > Geschäftsführer: Jürgen Kunz, Marcel van de Molen, Alexander van der Ven > > Green Oracle <http://www.oracle.com/commitment> Oracle is committed to > developing practices and products that help protect the environment -- Andrew :) Free Java Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) Support Free Java! Contribute to GNU Classpath and the OpenJDK http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath http://openjdk.java.net PGP Key: 94EFD9D8 (http://subkeys.pgp.net) Fingerprint = F8EF F1EA 401E 2E60 15FA 7927 142C 2591 94EF D9D8
