From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de>
Cc: "guix-devel@gnu.org" <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Rename icedtea{6,7}.
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2016 14:39:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87egduhloi.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <idjio37gfsn.fsf@bimsb-sys02.mdc-berlin.net> (Ricardo Wurmus's message of "Wed, 6 Jan 2016 11:31:36 +0100")
Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de> skribis:
> GCJ unfortunately only implements Java 1.5 (and that only works because
> they use a prebuilt binary of the Eclipse compiler since 2007). Later
> JDKs demand a compiler for Java 1.6+.
>
> It would be nice if GCJ were updated to support 1.6. The latest version
> of GNU Classpath already contains some support for 1.6 APIs, but is
> incomplete compared to OpenJDK6:
Unfortunately GCJ never really took off and the company that funded its
development eventually dropped the ball. It doesn’t receive much beyond
casual build fixes nowadays.
Ludo’.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-06 13:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-30 15:49 [PATCH] Rename icedtea{6,7} Ricardo Wurmus
2016-01-05 21:45 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-01-06 10:31 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-01-06 13:39 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
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