From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail1.skidata.com (mail1.skidata.com [91.230.2.99]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED5AA762B7 for ; Mon, 31 Aug 2015 07:34:27 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApwEAEYC5FWsEApK/2dsb2JhbABehFgGxhYCgXQBAQEBAQGBC4QjAQEBAwEyAUUBEAsNCwkWDwkDAgECAUUGDQEFAgKIIg3BMAEBAQEBBQEBAQEehnCEe4ULBxeEFQEElUGOPocuF4kmiDWEJ2+BSIEFAQEB X-IPAS-Result: ApwEAEYC5FWsEApK/2dsb2JhbABehFgGxhYCgXQBAQEBAQGBC4QjAQEBAwEyAUUBEAsNCwkWDwkDAgECAUUGDQEFAgKIIg3BMAEBAQEBBQEBAQEehnCEe4ULBxeEFQEElUGOPocuF4kmiDWEJ2+BSIEFAQEB Message-ID: <55E4035F.6040608@skidata.com> Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 09:33:51 +0200 From: Richard Leitner User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/31.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: References: <1A315F32-74AE-4B3B-A5B7-65A33C5A6BC7@gmail.com> <55E006B4.50103@skidata.com> In-Reply-To: X-Originating-IP: [172.16.60.30] Cc: Otavio Salvador Subject: Re: meta-java - recent commits break foreign (MY!) builds ... X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 07:34:32 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On 08/28/2015 04:11 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote: > On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 3:59 AM, Richard Leitner > wrote: >> I think we should keep (and UPDATE!) openjdk 6 & 7 as long as they get >> support from RedHat and therefore IcedTea. There may be users relying on >> the old java version for their long-term-supported products (so do we)! >> >> IMHO we should start with openjdk 6: remove the old versions and add the >> latest (1.13.8)! >> >> What do you think? Any comments? > > If you are willing to work on that, I have no problem. As I mentioned, I will update openjdk-7 as long as I need it. If it's okay for you I will send patches for these updates to the ml. From a current point of view it looks like I will provide updates until end of 2016 at least. > > The point is Java is complex and we have few people working on this so > I prefer one well maintained version than 3 oddly ones. I understand that. But currently I have no need for openjdk-8. Therefore my focus is on keeping openjdk-7 up to date.