On 29 March 2014 01:02, Guillaume ALAUX <guillaume@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 28 March 2014 18:30, Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> I'm just wondering what the plan is, if any, for getting java 8 >> packages into arch? >> >> -- >> Caleb Cushing >> >> http://xenoterracide.com >> >> Calendar: >> https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=xenoterracide%40gmail.com&ctz=America/Chicago > > Hello, > > There is no official Java 8 package in Arch Linux because the OpenJDK > we provide uses the IcedTea [0] but unfortunately IcedTea has no > stable version available **yet** for Java 8. More details about > IcedTea roadmap here [1]. So the plan (for me at least) is to wait for > IcedTea 3.0 that will support Java 8. Shipping a "vanilla" OpenJDK8 > into extra (possibly from the binaries provided by Oracle) could be an > option in the meantime. > > [0] http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/Main_Page > [1] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2014-March/026727.html > > -- > Guillaume Hi, I brought this to arch-dev-public [0] so that Arch devs could discuss what could be done. Feel free to comment here as arch-dev-public is read-only for non devs. [0] https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2014-March/026076.html
