On 07/29/2011 04:55 PM, Deepak Bhole wrote: > * Omair Majid <omajid@xxxxxxxxxx> [2011-07-29 10:32]: >> 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 >> > > Thanks. I hadn't seen the full list, but I knew it'd fairly small > given how much importance compatibility has been given in the past and > for 7. > > Unfortunately it is not possible to gauge how much Fedora will be > affected by that :/ My biggest concern would be for apps using sun.* > APIs. As mentioned above though, it should be a small percentage. > > Cheers, > Deepak I found different warning about Java 7 changes: http://www.lucidimagination.com/search/document/1a0d3986e48a9348/warning_index_corruption_and_crashes_in_apache_lucene_core_apache_solr_with_java_7 Does it impact also our Java? Anyway you will need exception if you want Java 7 as a feature for F-16. -- Marcela Mašláňová BaseOS team Brno -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
