On 11/29/2011 06:42 PM, fernando@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >>>>> 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 ? Oh yeah. I lead a whole team of people doing exactly that. As soon as we get the Java 7 TCK, we'll do the work. >>> 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. And also not wanting to break things for people using Java 6. > 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. :-) Excellent! > So all F16 packages build with OpenJDK 6 are supposed to work with > the also supplied GCJ ? No, sorry. Some do, some don't. Andrew. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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
