From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34586) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gAWGM-0007NP-0Y for guix-patches@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2018 04:24:06 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gAWGI-0003VY-RJ for guix-patches@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2018 04:24:05 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:39886) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gAWGI-0003V1-Gx for guix-patches@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2018 04:24:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gAWGI-0007YW-5j for guix-patches@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2018 04:24:02 -0400 Subject: [bug#33008] [WIP] openjdk 9 and 10 Resent-Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2018 10:23:52 +0200 From: Julien Lepiller In-Reply-To: <87o9c1crnb.fsf@posteo.net> References: <20181010234059.337d3496@lepiller.eu> <87o9c1crnb.fsf@posteo.net> Message-ID: <8f40672032e45bfaa5c513fbd28e877c@lepiller.eu> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-patches-bounces+kyle=kyleam.com@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-patches" To: Brett Gilio Cc: 33008@debbugs.gnu.org > Hi Julien, > > Could you, or somebody, perhaps explain to me what the difference > between the IcedTea distribution and OpenJDK is? OpenJDK is the free software version of Oracle's (or Sun's) JDK. It used to lack a few components to be buildable and runnable with only free software, and was a collection of separate components that were hard to build. IcedTea is a project to build a coherent collection of these components, and it also implemented a few missing components. IcedTea is only available for Java 6 to 8. From java 9, oracle did provide enough free software components and buildable sources, so we can build OpenJDK without a project like IcedTea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IcedTea for more information ;)