IcedTea comps.xml patch
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Tue Aug 28 22:13:50 UTC 2007
Thomas Fitzsimmons wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I built the first IcedTea packages into Rawhide today. Here is a
> comps.xml patch that would replace GCJ with IcedTea in the Java and Java
> Development groups, as well as install the plugin by default. I'm
> posting the patch mainly for discussion purposes. It will not work for
> ppc and ppc64 spins since IcedTea is currently only available on x86 and
> x86_64. Should we stick with GCJ as the default for Fedora 8 or switch
> to IcedTea on the platforms on which it is available?
I am strongly in favor of getting IcedTea as the default for the
platforms it is available especially since we can enable Java VM and
applets out of the box (in a secure way unlike GCJ).
Rahul
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