From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add Icedtea 3.0.0pre09 Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 14:48:16 +0200 Message-ID: References: <877fh04wk0.fsf@elephly.net> <87a8lmsvie.fsf@gnu.org> <87r3ey217d.fsf@elephly.net> <87a8lmpvrc.fsf@gnu.org> 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]:45722) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1asV4x-0001gk-8p for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Apr 2016 08:48:32 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1asV4u-0008Kn-2j for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Apr 2016 08:48:31 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87a8lmpvrc.fsf@gnu.org> 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" To: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel Ludovic Court=C3=A8s writes: > 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 li= ke >>>> 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! Time has offered an alternative option. IcedTea 3.0.0 has been released, so I updated the package expression and pushed it. We now have support for Java 8. (...or 1.8, or IcedTea version 3.0.0, gah, these version numbers drive me crazy!) ~~ Ricardo