On 07/25/2011 04:04 PM, Deepak Bhole wrote: > * Bill Nottingham<notting@xxxxxxxxxx> [2011-07-25 15:54]: >> Toshio Kuratomi (a.badger@xxxxxxxxx) said: >>> Robyn and I have talked about how the feature process could be adapted to >>> allow for more late work to occur however none of that talk has turned into >>> anything solid yet. One point that bears on this is that the Feature Owners >>> must be willing to commit to doing all the work involved in coordination >>> when they submit something late. In other words, if Java 7 update went in >>> well before the feature deadline, the expectation would be that packagers >>> whose packages depended on Java would need to adapt to Java 7. The >>> expectation now that the Feature Freeze has passed is that the people >>> pushing Java 7 into the repos would also need to seek out and fix all the >>> packages that depend on them that are broken. >> >> Would we actually be shipping only 7, or both 6 and 7? >> > > This hasn't been debated yet, but I am very much in favour of having > only 7 in Fedora 16. > > If the reason for asking was w.r.t re-builds, it is unlikely that most > applications will need a rebuild -- only those using deprecated APIs > (which would have been deprecated for years now) and private APIs would > be affected. That would likely be a small subset. Have you seen the list of incompatibilities? http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/compatibility-417013.html Cheers, Omair -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
