On 10:55 Fri 29 Jul , 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. > The old com.sun jpeg libraries would be the obvious ones to spring to mind. Whatever list Oracle has come up with doesn't really compare to real-world use and testing. I think we should offer both in F16. > Cheers, > Deepak > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel -- Andrew :) Free Java Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) Support Free Java! Contribute to GNU Classpath and IcedTea http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath http://icedtea.classpath.org PGP Key: F5862A37 (https://keys.indymedia.org/) Fingerprint = EA30 D855 D50F 90CD F54D 0698 0713 C3ED F586 2A37 -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
