* James Page: > As OpenJDK7 and Oracle Java 7 are much closer in terms of > codebase/compatibility than OpenJDK6/Sun Java 6 the consensus from the > session was that this would be a good switch to make as this release of > Ubuntu will be supported for 5 years.
Yes, that appears to be a good reason. JDK 6 is EOLed in mid-2012, so that's another concern. OpenJDK 7 is also easier to build that OpenJDK 6. (I'm not sure if this applies to the IcedTea variants.) > I have conducted a Ubuntu precise rebuild test with default-jdk switched > to use openjdk-7 and at the moment there are around ~100 packages > which fail to build from source (see [1]). > [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.tag=java7-ftbfs I get an "Error ID: OOPS-313e91354c2b7ac8927a9e63d54ff035". What I've noticed so far are tools which cannot parse the rt.jar from OpenJDK 7. > Is anyone in the team making Java 7 transition plans for Debian? Or > indeed does anyone have any opinion on whether this release of Debian is > the right point in time to switch default-java to openjdk-7? wheezy will be released after mid-2012, so the Java 7 transition is pretty much a unavoidable. -- Florian Weimer <[email protected]> BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstraße 100 tel: +49-721-96201-1 D-76133 Karlsruhe fax: +49-721-96201-99 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
