Hi, >>>> If I am, is there a timeframe for certified builds? >>> >>> No. >> >> :-( >> >> Please, Red Hat, drop a few bucks for this! ;-) > >What has Red Hat's bucks got to do with this?
Sorta kidding -- see the ;-) ? But isn't Red Hat kindgly giving time of some employees to work on IcedTea, and didn't they do the same for GCJ ? >> But someone told about incompatibilities on Fedora Java packages >> that prevented OpenJDK 7 / IcedTea 2 from being the default Java in >> F16. > >It was too early, really. The worst problem is that packages compiled >with Java 7 don't run on Java 6. This is by design: by default >compiled classes are marked as being runnable on a 7+ virtual machine >only. So, once you compile Fedora packages with Java 7 there's no >going back. Very reassuring. So it's only the work involved in checking each one of thousands specs. I remember being bitten by this issue on OpenJDK 6 x Java 5. I even submitted a patch to Fedora Xerces package, so I could run Fedora provided ant with proprietary Sun JDK 5. Nice being able to say I had a small contribution for the wonderful distro which is Fedora. :-) >> PS: I am writing an aticle about open source java jvms, it looks >> like GNU Classpath, GCJ, JamVM, CacaoVM, Kafee are dead, although >> not officially like Apache Harmony. Anyone can comment on this, >> mayne on a new thread? > >We're still using gcj, but it's not being worked on very much. It's >still closer to Java 1.5 than anything else. JamVM and Cacao are >very much alive. Thanks for the info. So all F16 packages build with OpenJDK 6 are supposed to work with the also supplied GCJ ? Or didn't you tested so far ? []s, Fernando Lozano -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
