IcedTea comps.xml patch
Nicolas Mailhot
nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net
Tue Aug 28 22:28:38 UTC 2007
Le mercredi 29 août 2007 à 00:16 +0200, Hans de Goede a écrit :
> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > 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).
> >
>
> +1
+1
The sooner icedtea is widely redistributed the sooner he can become the
de-facto main java 7 effort (as opposed to the sun-controlled openjdk
and the not-open sun jdk)
--
Nicolas Mailhot
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