On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Andy Grimm <agrimm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Deepak Bhole <dbhole@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> * Douglas Myers–Turnbull <dmyersturnbull@xxxxxxxxx> [2011-07-25 20:53]: >>> > I was planning to do this myself .. glad you started it :) I can take >>> > over the Feature and doing all the work if you're fine with it... >>> >>> Please do! >>> >>> The only work I've done (literally) is on the feature page, but feel >>> free let me know if you need anything from me. >>> >> >> Hi Douglas, >> >> Thank you once again for creating the page. I have started updating it >> and will add docs and other links tomorrow: >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Java7 >> >> For anyone and everyone interested, a Java 7 build is now available in >> the Fedora 16. I will build for rawhide in the coming days as well: >> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=257034 >> >> Cheers, >> Deepak > > After some discussion on #fedora-java over the past 24 hours, I was > asked to continue the discussion here regarding the implications of > openjdk 6 and 7 coexisting in F16. Right now, java packages are being > built for F16 using openjdk 7, and if they are built without > "target=1.6", they will fail to load under openjdk 6. (One simple > example of this is xalan, see > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=733686 ). Some possible > solutions proposed over IRC: > > 1) Blacklist openjdk 7 from build roots for f16 -- this means that it > doesn't get tested very well, though. > > 2) Ensure all java packages use target=1.6 -- there's no standard way > to do this across ant, mvn, javac, etc. though. You could check for > 1.7 bytecode at the end of a build, but packages would still need to > be individually fixed. > > 3) Drop openjdk 6 from F16 entirely > > It was also mentioned that Fedora is beginning to include some > packages which build much more cleanly on openjdk 7 than they do on 6, > so enforcing openjdk 6-only build roots might break some things. > > Other suggestions are welcome. I don't have a strong opinion about > this, just a strong interest in having a sane Java environment in F16. I think that would have to go to FESCo for approval or at least a decision, its a fairly major change to happen post alpha where all major changes should have landed already and all major mass rebuilds should have been done. Peter -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
