On 30 March 2014 19:47, Javier Vasquez <j.e.vasquez.v@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 6:02 PM, 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? >>> >>> ... >> >> 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 > > I'm curious why such hurry? Is 7 broken, or is it a security > weakness? Why not waiting for icedtea8 to be released? If it's not > clear when, then why not interacting with upstream to find out, and > provide help if needed (testing or whatever)? > > -- > Javier. You are right in that there is no particular hurry: 7 is not broken nor is there any particular weakness. Nevertheless OpenJDK8 is now officially out and in a stable release so it should be packaged at one time. Waiting for IcedTea8 is a possibility that I mentionned on arch-dev-public [0]. As for when it will be released, IcedTea devs state "probably based on u20" but I admit this does not give me even a rough idea of when this should be. This I am going to ask on the IcedTea mailing list. This would help in making the decision. [0] https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2014-March/026082.html
