On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 4:33 AM, Richard Leitner <richard.leit...@skidata.com> wrote: > On 08/28/2015 04:11 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 3:59 AM, Richard Leitner >> <richard.leit...@skidata.com> wrote: >>> I think we should keep (and UPDATE!) openjdk 6 & 7 as long as they get >>> support from RedHat and therefore IcedTea. There may be users relying on >>> the old java version for their long-term-supported products (so do we)! >>> >>> IMHO we should start with openjdk 6: remove the old versions and add the >>> latest (1.13.8)! >>> >>> What do you think? Any comments? >> >> If you are willing to work on that, I have no problem. > > As I mentioned, I will update openjdk-7 as long as I need it. If it's > okay for you I will send patches for these updates to the ml. From a > current point of view it looks like I will provide updates until end of > 2016 at least.
Yes; fine with me. >> The point is Java is complex and we have few people working on this so >> I prefer one well maintained version than 3 oddly ones. > > I understand that. But currently I have no need for openjdk-8. Therefore > my focus is on keeping openjdk-7 up to date. Sure. Specially if your app works with OpenJDK 8 I see no much benefit in keep using the old version. Do you see it differently? -- Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems http://www.ossystems.com.br http://code.ossystems.com.br Mobile: +55 (53) 9981-7854 Mobile: +1 (347) 903-9750 -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list Openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel