From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add Icedtea 3.0.0pre09
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 22:35:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877fh04wk0.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <idjio0uwdcq.fsf@bimsb-sys02.mdc-berlin.net>
Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de> writes:
> the latest icedtea-ified JDK has not yet been released, but this doesn’t
> mean we can’t package it.
>
> Attached is a patch to add “icedtea-8” (because it provides the JDK for
> Java version 1.8). It uses the upstream tarball for version 3.0.0pre09,
> which I had to mirror on my own server because the Guile HTTP client
> doesn’t like an invalid header in the response from
> http://icedtea.classpath.org.
On IRC there was the idea to provide “url-fetch/wget” which would be
less strict compared to the default Guile HTTP client.
> The version is declared as “2.99.99-pre09” so that version “3.0.0” (when
> it is finally released) will be considered an update.
Does it make sense to push this patch to master? Or should we wait for
an official release? Java 1.8 is already pretty old and it seems like
the pre-release is enough to build OpenJDK 8.
~~ Ricardo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-17 21:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-10 15:40 [PATCH] gnu: Add Icedtea 3.0.0pre09 Ricardo Wurmus
2016-03-11 9:58 ` Roel Janssen
2016-03-11 13:32 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-03-11 15:24 ` Roel Janssen
2016-03-17 21:35 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2016-03-25 10:27 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-25 12:26 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-03-25 12:49 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-04-19 12:48 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-04-21 20:39 ` Roel Janssen
2016-03-26 9:11 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-03-26 14:36 ` Ludovic Courtès
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