On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 11:29 -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 > alternative to 1.6 and having (1.7 built) apps fail. > > Are there any major objections to the above? In theory, in the long run, no. In the short term, it sounds worrying: remember the schedule - http://rbergero.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-16/f-16-devel-tasks.html there are less than two months until final freeze (2011-10-17), after which you'll have no chance to mess with this stuff as none of it is going to be taken as blocking final release. That seems like quite a short time frame to make sure everything, or at least all the major things, in Fedora build and work against Java 7. I'd say go with the 'everything is Java 7 by default and Java 6 is only around for backwards compatibility with 3rd-party stuff' plan only if you're pretty confident you can have everything building and working against Java 7, to an acceptable level of functionality, by mid-October. And be really honest with yourself about the likelihood of that happening. And I agree with Toshio that this has to go through FESCo. It would be good to present them with as comprehensive and realistic a survey as possible of the pros and cons of the various possible approaches. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
