Hi Amit, On Thursday 06 October 2011 02:20:42 pm Amit Kulkarni wrote: > >> The following diff changes the default bootstrap depend from jdk/1.5 to > >> lang/jamvm + Eclipse compiler (ecj). > >> > >> Tested on i386 and amd64: builds ok, builds native_bootstrap ok and jdk/1.7 > >> ok. > >> > >> After this goes in we can remove jdk/1.5 which is EOL since 2009. > >> > >> okay? > > > > The in-lined patch got line wrapped by my mailer. Attached is the same diff. > > > > -Kurt > > > Smooth upgrade... I had to move stuff from distfiles to distfiles/jdk. > No problems found on amd64. couple more crusty ports removed!!!
Thanks. > Kurt, > The plan is to keep 1.6 u3 around to bootstrap 1.7 and future 1.8, and > concentrate more on upcoming versions only, right? i.e use 1.7 and > discourage 1.6 because of securtiy concerns? No plans here. Just plans to have plans. Idealy someone (or me eventually) switches 1.6 to OpenJDK 1.6 so we get 1.6 packages but we loose the Sun plugin. I doubt that will happen this release though. icedtea-web will be the plugin we rely upon in the future. Regards, -Kurt
