On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 11:55 AM, tony mancill wrote: > 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.
Probably best to just proceed in a normal way; add OpenJDK 8 to Debian, start a transition and if it completes in time then make OpenJDK 8 the default with OpenJDK 7 still an option. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-java-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CAKTje6F5nw35=zbcyuqtg8m-y96fbuvzspgzc6_miacumef...@mail.gmail.com
