On Wed 26 Mar 2014 05:29:55 PM CET Christopher wrote: > On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 9:31 AM, Deepak Bhole <dbhole@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> * Christopher <ctubbsii@xxxxxxxxxx> [2014-03-25 19:59]: >>> I also would like to see 1.7.0 stick around for awhile. Not >>> necessarily as the default, but at least available in the repos. As it >>> stands, it's difficult to use a modern Fedora on projects that are >>> still developing against JDK 1.6. >>> >> >> Unfortunately, OpenJDK7 will be EOLd in April 2015[1], which is within >> the support time-frame of the F21. This is one the reasons why we would >> like to be able to switch over to OpenJDK8 asap for F21. >> >> 1: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html > > I don't see how Oracle tentatively dropping long-term public support > for 7 means that Fedora needs can no longer provide OpenJDK7 in its > repos (not as default, of course), with or without additional updates, > for developers who want to use a modern Fedora, but need to develop > for applications/hardware that requires strict 7 compatibility. > > The alternative is Fedora fans will be forced to use an older version > of Fedora, use a different Linux distro, or find some hackish > workaround (yum --releasever=20 ...; which is problematic, because > every version 8 update will obsolete 7, just like 7 currently does > with 6 packages), or download untrusted 3rd party packages. > > It seems to me that support in Fedora would be pretty easy: just make > sure it doesn't cause a packaging conflict and recommend the newer > JDK8. Maybe call it -compat? But, I defer to the experts on Fedora > packaging/support policies and decisions. I'm just a user, and don't > know all the implications for trying to include it. I just think it'd > be nice to keep around. It's not a question if we can have multiple parallel JDKs (we already can, you can install 7 and 8 at the same time). What we *can't* have in Fedora is a high-profile package which doesn't receive security updates upstream and there is nobody in Fedora willing and capable of doing that. What's the big deal with using '--target 1.7' anyway? That covers 99% of use cases, and any possible problems will have to be caught by CI running whatever you'd be deploying on anyway. -- Stanislav Ochotnicky <sochotnicky@xxxxxxxxxx> Software Engineer - Developer Experience PGP: 7B087241 Red Hat Inc. http://cz.redhat.com
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