* Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh@xxxxxxxxxx> [2013-01-23 15:22]: > On Wed 23 Jan 2013 02:53:30 PM EST, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > > = Features/Java8TechPreview = > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Java8TechPreview > > > > Feature owner(s): Deepak Bhole <dbhole@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > Add a tech preview preview of the the upcoming version of Java (OpenJDK8) to > > Fedora 19. > > > > == Detailed description == > > The current Java implementation in Fedora comes from OpenJDK. > > > > Java 8 (and OpenJDK8) are tentatively scheduled for release in September 2013. > > Fedora 19 will most likely be out just a few months before that, and is > > therefore positioned to receive a tech preview version of the latest OpenJDK8 > > candidates. > > > Given that it's not expected to be in final release for Fedora 19, can > we please ensure that we're talking about a parallel-installable > version alongside OpenJDK 7 (and that Java packages for Fedora are kept > compiled with OpenJDK 7 unless it is impossible to do so)? > Hi Stephen, Not sure what you mean by "Given that it's not expected to be in final release for Fedora 19" -- unless that was a typo and you meant that the final version of OpenJDK8 is not expected to be in Fedora 19 ... in case of latter, that holds true for GA. However OpenJDK8 final is expected to be out in September and we will likely upgrade to it in F19 when it is out. As for it being parallel-installable, yes, that is definitely what we will be doing. We will do exactly what we did with Fedora 16, whereby OpenJDK6 and OpenJDK7 were installable in parallel. All packages in F16 were built with OpenJDK6 and similarly, everything in F19 will be built with OpenJDK7. OpenJDK8 will be completely optional and nothing will depend on it in F19. We will not consider making OpenJDK8 the default at least until Fedora 20. Cheers, Deepak > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
