From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Roel Janssen Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add Icedtea 3.0.0pre09 Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2016 22:39:34 +0200 Message-ID: <87a8kmelx5.fsf@gnu.org> 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: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43538) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1atLOI-00069H-TQ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Apr 2016 16:40:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1atLOE-0005Qe-B6 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Apr 2016 16:39:58 -0400 In-reply-to: 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: Ricardo Wurmus Cc: guix-devel Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> Ricardo Wurmus skribis: >> >>> Ludovic Courtès 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’d rather wait for an official release, but maybe there’s a good reason >>>> to use the pre-release? >> >> [...] >> >>> So many words for a variant of “I’m not sure” :) >> >> 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 This is cool. Thanks!