-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed 23 Jan 2013 03:27:51 PM EST, Deepak Bhole wrote: > * 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. > Yes, you interpreted my question correctly. Thank you for clarifying. I'm certainly on-board with this proposal. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.13 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlEBNIAACgkQeiVVYja6o6NhFACgmLAcwnx59a+btA2Iaj+Ujf+M 9QIAn2T0sVMiH8e5X91XEkaChd9lhf5w =+Wsl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
