On 11/17/2017 04:15 AM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > On Fri, 17 Nov 2017 03:24:47 -0500 > "William L. Thomson Jr." <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> The icedtea from source ebuild is a result of RedHat. The main person >> at RedHat responsible for their open source Java is the author of >> Icedtea. He uses Gentoo as his development/test platform. Gentoo >> usually will have that at least the same time as others, if not before >> all others. >> >> If it was not for him, and RedHat paying him. I doubt Gentoo would >> have from source Java. Not to discount Chewi/James efforts. But the >> author of Icedtea is the one maintaining that in java-overlay. > > Something to keep in mind. Part of why Icedtea lags like with Java 9. > The Icedtea author as part of their role at RedHat is responsible for > older versions as well. Much of their time is consumed in dealing with > older. Thus the latest does not always get as much time, or 100%. > > Next month 1.6 ends, but with 9 out not sure it helps. Still has 1.7 > and 1.8 for some time to come. They have to maintain 3 versions... > https://access.redhat.com/articles/1299013 >
Oh come on! Triple posting to the ML? Do we really need to have another discussion about not being spammy... Please... Think before you post... -- NP-Hardass
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