Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add Icedtea 3.0.0pre09

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:

> 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.

We could do that, but I would prefer fixing and/or monkey-patching the
date header check in Guile.

In this case, if the problem is date header validation, it seems that we
could monkey-patch the ‘parse-rfc-822-date’ procedure of (web http) to
do the right thing.

Would you like to give it a try?

>> 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.

I’d rather wait for an official release, but maybe there’s a good reason
to use the pre-release?

Thanks,
Ludo’.