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 E7B3776F2D for ; Mon, 31 Aug 2015 13:39:45 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AqkHAIRY5FWsEApK/2dsb2JhbABehFgGxhwCgW8BAQEBAQGBC0EFg14BAQQyAUUBEAsNCwkWDwkDAgECAUUGDQEFAgKIL8RYAQEBAQEFAQEBAR6GcIR7hQsHF4QVAQSVQY4+hy4XjW+DbIQnb4FIgQUBAQE X-IPAS-Result: AqkHAIRY5FWsEApK/2dsb2JhbABehFgGxhwCgW8BAQEBAQGBC0EFg14BAQQyAUUBEAsNCwkWDwkDAgECAUUGDQEFAgKIL8RYAQEBAQEFAQEBAR6GcIR7hQsHF4QVAQSVQY4+hy4XjW+DbIQnb4FIgQUBAQE Message-ID: <55E458FD.9060009@skidata.com> Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 15:39:09 +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> <55E4035F.6040608@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 13:39:46 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On 08/31/2015 03:06 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote: > On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 4:33 AM, Richard Leitner > wrote: >>> 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. > > Sure. > > Specially if your app works with OpenJDK 8 I see no much benefit in > keep using the old version. Do you see it differently? > If we have verified that everything is working as expected with openjdk-8 we will for sure think of updating to it. But as we have a quite big application stack and long QA/testing phases this may take some time. Therefore we will stay (as far as I can currently tell) at least for another year with openjdk-7.