On 04/08/2014 05:40 PM, Miguel Landaeta wrote: > On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 12:12:57AM +0200, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: >> >> OpenJDK 8 in Jessie is a must-have in my opinion, and we are now on >> track to provide a proper package. > > Agree. > >> The question of the default-jdk is open for discussion. Fedora 21 will >> default to OpenJDK 8 and I wish we could switch as well. David Suarez >> has kindly accepted to launch a rebuild of the Java packages with >> OpenJDK 8 and we have ~80 packages to fix [1] (see [2] for a summary of >> the issues encountered). I started fixing some packages and reporting >> the issues upstream, but I think more manpower is needed to fix and >> stabilize everything before the freeze. > > This is a discussion we have to have now as jessie freeze deadline > approaches. > > I already identified some of my packages in that list so I'll begin > fixing that. > > We agree on the manpower issue for this as well.
I agree that this is a good discussion to start now - we're 7 months before the freeze for jessie. My initial thought was that jessie would use OpenJDK 7. However, given that the jessie freeze is in early November of 2014 [0], and that Oracle has (tentatively?) announced EOL for Java7 in April of 2015 [1], OpenJDK 8 seems like it might be a better choice for the default-jdk over the stable lifetime of jessie. Of course, OpenJDK 7 isn't bound to Oracle's schedule (just as support for OpenJDK 6 hasn't been), and it's difficult to know what mainstream adoption of Java 8 will be like. I hope others with stronger opinions one way or the other will weigh in on this thread... :) Cheers, tony [0] https://release.debian.org/jessie/freeze_policy.html [1] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html
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