From: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de>
Cc: 'Guix-devel' <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Update IcedTea.
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2015 11:38:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150907093853.GA7127@debian> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <idj613m8tq9.fsf@bimsb-sys02.mdc-berlin.net>
On Mon, Sep 07, 2015 at 11:27:26AM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> The only reason why I added icedtea7 and kept icedtea6 was that I
> previously did not know that icedtea7 could be bootstrapped with GCJ.
> In the first attempt to get icedtea7 to compile I used icedtea6 to build
> it. Now that this is no longer required, I think there is no good
> reason not to rename “icedtea7” to “icedtea” and drop icedtea6.
Great!
> It should be noted, though, that “icedtea7” inherits from “icedtea6” and
> dropping “icedtea6” would either require a rewrite of the package
> definition for “icedtea7” or force us to retain the “icedtea6”
> definition (making it private).
Rewriting the icedtea(7) definition sounds like the proper solution to me.
Thanks!
Andreas
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-07 9:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-22 13:46 [PATCH] Update IcedTea Ricardo Wurmus
2015-07-22 17:33 ` Andreas Enge
2015-09-07 9:15 ` Andreas Enge
2015-09-07 9:27 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2015-09-07 9:38 ` Andreas Enge [this message]
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