On 11/29/10 5:03 PM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote: > 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.
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