Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> writes: > Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wur...@mdc-berlin.de> skribis: > >> The following patches rename the packages “icedtea6” and “icedtea7” to >> just “icedtea”, and the variables “icedtea6” and “icedtea7” to >> “icedtea-6” and “icedtea-7”. They also add a default “icedtea”, which >> is just an alias for “icedtea-7”. Packages needing a JDK or JRE can now >> just add “icedtea” to their inputs. > > This sounds reasonable to me, but what’s the rationale? Is it that > people have no reason to use the older version?
Yes, there is no good reason to use an older version than 7, as 7 can be made to produce code for older JREs. >> As soon as IcedTea 8/3.0.0 is released I’d like to remove the >> “icedtea-6” package. “icedtea-7” has to stay around because “icedtea-8” >> cannot be bootstrapped with GCJ any more; it needs a more recent JDK. > > Bah, pity, but good that we already have everything. GCJ unfortunately only implements Java 1.5 (and that only works because they use a prebuilt binary of the Eclipse compiler since 2007). Later JDKs demand a compiler for Java 1.6+. It would be nice if GCJ were updated to support 1.6. The latest version of GNU Classpath already contains some support for 1.6 APIs, but is incomplete compared to OpenJDK6: http://builder.classpath.org/japi/openjdk6-classpath.html I’m pushing these commits in a few minutes. Thanks for the review! ~~ Ricardo
