I am only the messenger on this one; I was being asked on IRC.
There is an interesting message on the OSGeo live mailing list as they talked
to some linux distro guy on which way the wind is blowing with respect to Java
use.
For my 2 cents; let OSGeo Live try with OpenJDK (since they will anyways) and
make a decision when we hear how it went?
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Jody Garnett
On Thursday, 10 May 2012 at 12:06 AM, Justin Deoliveira wrote:
> I would love to see us more officially embrace openjdk but I agree with
> Andrea it is a resourcing issue that requires someone to take the time to
> setup a buildbot. Then there is the question of how much we are actually
> prepared to support it. Say someone sets up a buildbot and we start setting
> breakages that do not occur on the main build bot? Do we consider those
> blocker? A decision for the PSC i guess.
>
> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 12:23 AM, Jody Garnett <[email protected]
> (mailto:[email protected])> wrote:
> > My memory matches yours.
> >
> > So I recommend we check around for a build box with OpenJDK 6 - or we drop
> > the geotools projects out of the "live dvd" - or we let them included it
> > with a note that it is not a supported configuration.
> >
> >
> > Jody
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> Justin Deoliveira
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