From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add Icedtea 3.0.0pre09 Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2016 13:49:59 +0100 Message-ID: <87a8lmpvrc.fsf@gnu.org> References: <877fh04wk0.fsf@elephly.net> <87a8lmsvie.fsf@gnu.org> <87r3ey217d.fsf@elephly.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56193) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ajRBm-0000by-JM for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2016 08:50:07 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ajRBi-0006Rp-0a for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2016 08:50:06 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87r3ey217d.fsf@elephly.net> (Ricardo Wurmus's message of "Fri, 25 Mar 2016 13:26:14 +0100") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ricardo Wurmus Cc: guix-devel Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > Ludovic Court=C3=A8s writes: > >> Ricardo Wurmus skribis: [...] >>> 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. >> >> I=E2=80=99d rather wait for an official release, but maybe there=E2=80= =99s a good reason >> to use the pre-release? [...] > So many words for a variant of =E2=80=9CI=E2=80=99m not sure=E2=80=9D :) In short ;-), it seems to me that packaging this pre-release would make sense since it would bring the power of Java 8 to our users, so go for it! Ludo=E2=80=99.