Re: OpenJDK 8 vs Zulu

2015-01-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 10:41 PM, Andrew Haley wrote: That would be against the rules AFAICR: you're supposed to do your own TCK runs, and not on behalf of someone else. How do automated builds factor into that? -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: OpenJDK 8 vs Zulu

2015-01-19 Thread Andrew Haley
On 19/01/15 11:35, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: I've requested an access to the TCK for Java 8 in June to run it on the Debian packages but I haven't heard back from Oracle yet. I'd ping them again. Andrew. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-java-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: OpenJDK 8 vs Zulu

2015-01-19 Thread Andrew Haley
On 19/01/15 00:20, Paul Wise wrote: If there are individuals who have access to the TCK and could validate the package and file bugs, that would be great. That would be against the rules AFAICR: you're supposed to do your own TCK runs, and not on behalf of someone else. Andrew. -- To

Re: OpenJDK 8 vs Zulu

2015-01-19 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Hi Jonathan, Le 18/01/2015 23:21, Jonathan Yu a écrit : I wonder if there's anything that can (or should) be done to address Gil's criticisms. I love Debian and would always prefer to install things via apt-get from the official repositories rather than download/install third-party packages,

Re: OpenJDK 8 vs Zulu

2015-01-19 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Le 19/01/2015 01:20, Paul Wise a écrit : The actual version is 8u40~b09-1, which means Debian revision 1 of beta 9 of 8u40. It sounds like he misinterpreted this version. Perhaps expanding the b to beta would help here? 'b' stands for 'build' here, not 'beta'. A new OpenJDK build is tagged