Hi, On 05/31/2012 02:24 PM, Fernando Lozano wrote: >>> I find this design decision very odd, exactly for the reasons you >>> mentioned. Java 7 is, to my knowledge, far from universally supported. I >>> would have waited for at least another release or two before phasing out >>> Java 6. >> We did think about it, but OpenJDK 6 is going to be EOL'd this year, with >> a complete cessation of updates. > > I can understand you wish to compile everything using OpenJDK7, but why > don't keep OpenJDK6 on the repos as an option, just like you did with > java-1.5.0-gcj ? Long-term support for releases of packages that are dead upstream undoubtedly makes sense for some distros, but Fedora doesn't do it. Fedora has a fairly short lifetime, and OpenJDK 6 will be EOL before the end of it. 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
