Fernando de Oliveira wrote:
> Bruce, I know that you are in a hurry because of the trip.
>
> I am worried. I believe you forgot we combined a couple of days ago to
> name OpenJDK-1.0.7.40-2.4.1. That is why in the diff I sent, I changed
> everything that way, for the "About Java" page, too. The directories for
> the tarballs are named like that, and will break the instructions  in
> the book. The reason for this convention is that sometimes just the
> icedtea version changes, not the jdk. It is possible to have a sequency
> like:
>
> OpenJDK-1.0.7.40-2.4.1
> OpenJDK-1.0.7.40-2.4.2

Did you render the book?  The title of the section is 
OpenJDK-1.7.0.40/IcedTea-2.4.1.  Actually, the IcedTea part is actually 
not that critical as it is just a build harness.


> It has happened in the past, IIRC, more than one time. So, if only
> icedtea changes, the book need a new openjdk,

Really?  Why?

however with the same name
> as the previous one. I have difficulty of thinking about two versions of
> a package with the same versions. It is a contradiction the same
> sentence. Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, all were obliged to change this way.
>
> Also, if the tarballs do not have the icedtea version in the name, we
> risk to have two different packages with the same name, same directory,
> or will have to name a directory with version like
> OpenJDK-1.0.7.40-2.4.1, which at the end is a more complicated way of
> saying that the version is really OpenJDK-1.0.7.40-2.4.1, and so on.

I handled that by putting the jdk files in a versioned directory on anduin.

  And
> more, how can we distinguish between the two versions in anduin? One
> will replace the other.
>
> Please, when you have time, think about it and reconsider the diff I
> sent. I noticed you did not use it, because we were thinking in
> different things.

Please explain it to me again.  What do you want to change in the latest 
section of the book?

   -- Bruce



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