On 09/04/2014 05:55, tony mancill wrote: > On 04/08/2014 05:40 PM, Miguel Landaeta wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 12:12:57AM +0200, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: >>> OpenJDK 8 in Jessie is a must-have in my opinion, and we are now on >>> track to provide a proper package. >> Agree. >> >>> The question of the default-jdk is open for discussion. Fedora 21 will >>> default to OpenJDK 8 and I wish we could switch as well. David Suarez >>> has kindly accepted to launch a rebuild of the Java packages with >>> OpenJDK 8 and we have ~80 packages to fix [1] (see [2] for a summary of >>> the issues encountered). I started fixing some packages and reporting >>> the issues upstream, but I think more manpower is needed to fix and >>> stabilize everything before the freeze. >> This is a discussion we have to have now as jessie freeze deadline >> approaches. >> >> I already identified some of my packages in that list so I'll begin >> fixing that. >> >> We agree on the manpower issue for this as well. > I agree that this is a good discussion to start now - we're 7 months > before the freeze for jessie. > > My initial thought was that jessie would use OpenJDK 7. However, given > that the jessie freeze is in early November of 2014 [0], and that Oracle > has (tentatively?) announced EOL for Java7 in April of 2015 [1], OpenJDK > 8 seems like it might be a better choice for the default-jdk over the > stable lifetime of jessie. Of course, OpenJDK 7 isn't bound to Oracle's > schedule (just as support for OpenJDK 6 hasn't been), and it's difficult > to know what mainstream adoption of Java 8 will be like. > I am also in favor of using Openjdk 8 as default for jessie Emmanuel results are pretty good, it is going to be maintained for a longer period than 7.
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