On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 11:29:33AM -0400, Deepak Bhole wrote: > > Andrew Haley and I just had a chat about this. > > We both agree that weaning off the 1.6 dependency is the best long-term > solution. We essentially want it so that nothing in Fedora needs 1.6. > > That said, we will continue to ship 1.6 since 3rd party apps may need > it. We will however remove the alternatives for 1.6, so using them will > require the user to manually set JAVA_HOME to > /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0..../ and call the java binary from that dir. > This will prevent someone from accidentally switching the system > alterne ative to 1.6 and having (1.7 built) apps fail. > Look into environment-modules as a possible aid to the end user : http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:EnvironmentModules I've always wondered why we used alternatives for java when it seems like it's a per user or per application setting rather than a per-host setting anyway. > Are there any major objections to the above? > Yeah, I'm with Peter Robinson that this change is coming too late in the cycle. Alpha has already shipped. FESCo could disagree but it *must* go to FESCo for them to give you permission. > In the mean time, I am going to start building all java packages > currently in F16 against 1.7 only to see the scope of changes that will > be needed. > to east > Do you need a separate build tag setup so you can do this testing without disturbing normal builds? -Toshio
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