Steve Poole wrote:
:
I can appreciate why you want to be cautious right now - but it is
important that the codebase is regularly upgraded. If IcedTea have shown
that 1.2.5 is "ok" then I'd say the risk is quite low.
For JDK 8 it would make sense to discuss the pros and cons of relying on
the system version of zlib. I can make the case either way though.
We should probably add a build option around this so there is the option
of using the system zip library in preference to compiling the zlib copy
in the repository. However, I don't think we can get away from keeping a
copy in the repository as we need to be able to compile to platforms
that don't have zlib.
Do you have cycles to do testing with zlib 1.2.5, ideally on platforms
other than Linux? (I suggest platforms other than Linux as it does
appear that this version is used there and it would really help to get
confirmation that all is well on other platforms too).
-Alan.
