Java updates

Java updates

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Hello Guix,

now that core-updates has been merged it is a good time to revisit the
changes to our Java packages.  We wanted to switch to icedtea-8 as the
default.

Does anyone know what the status of this changeset is?  We should push
this to a branch on Savannah after rebasing it and then build it out on
berlin.guixsd.org.

Are there any known big problems that remain to be solved here?

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Re: Java updates

[Gábor Boskovits]

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2018-02-18 14:19 GMT+01:00 Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>:

> Hello Guix,
>
> now that core-updates has been merged it is a good time to revisit the
> changes to our Java packages.  We wanted to switch to icedtea-8 as the
> default.
>
> Does anyone know what the status of this changeset is?  We should push
> this to a branch on Savannah after rebasing it and then build it out on
> berlin.guixsd.org.
>
> Are there any known big problems that remain to be solved here?
>
>
There are two missing patchests. One for bootstrapping java-asm, and
one that adds ant-junit to packages that needs them.

One of the problems I know of is that jeromq fails tests, I guess it might
come from
the underlying zeromq, because this seems to be only a thin wrapper.

I also had to add jdk7 to one package, I will check which one is that. It
would be nice
to fix that.

Some patches are available for review on guix-patches, tagged core-updates,
and mentioning
java. I could not react to all those yet, I had some pressure recently, I
will check those the next
week.


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Re: Java updates

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Gábor Boskovits <boskovits@gmail.com> writes:

>> Are there any known big problems that remain to be solved here?
>>
>>
> There are two missing patchests. One for bootstrapping java-asm, and
> one that adds ant-junit to packages that needs them.

Okay, thanks for the reminder.

> One of the problems I know of is that jeromq fails tests, I guess it might
> come from
> the underlying zeromq, because this seems to be only a thin wrapper.

I updated jeromq on master / core-updates and noticed two failing tests,
which I then disabled.

> Some patches are available for review on guix-patches, tagged core-updates,
> and mentioning
> java.

Okay, I’ll go through them and apply them to a new branch in the coming
days.

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