[fedora-java] Eclipse Luna on Fedora 21 and JDK 8 requirement

[Mat Booth]

On 31 October 2014 08:18, Max Rydahl Andersen <manderse at redhat.com> wrote:

>
>>>> Fedora 20 used to have 3 different Java versions (5, 7, 8).
>>>>
>>>
>>> ok, why no Java 6 ?
>>>
>>
>> Besides many technical reason the biggest one is non-technical in my eyes
>> - no one volunteered to do it. You know it's always a matter of "who will
>> do the work?". I'm pretty sure that if someone jumps in and say "Hey, I'll
>> maintain Java 6, fix problems/adopt Java 6 to changes in the OS if neeeded,
>> help strengthen the switching between JREs, go through the Java
>> projects(shipped in Fedora) and help them properly set their targets in
>> build scripts so builds properly work on Java 6 and etc" there will be no
>> objection to having Java 6. :)
>>
>
> Fair enough.
>
>  OpenJDK 7
>>>> was removed from F21 because its support will end before F21 EOL and
>>>> we
>>>> don't want to ship software not supported by upstream.
>>>>
>>>
>>> So for users most stable thing is to use Oracle JDK builds instead which
>>> are and will stay available ?
>>>
>>
>> Users can still try to use it but it's something that they have to do on
>> their own - download, extract, set PATH, etc. Just like on every platform
>> with Oracle JVM.
>>
>
> Yeah, this is similar experience for developers on all other platforms so
> its expected/assumed.
>
>  No separate repo with "binaries that is currently supported but will not
>>> stay supported for all of fedora 21 lifetime" ?
>>>
>>
>> 1. Fedora can not legally redistribute Oracle JDK.
>>
>
> I know - hence why I would think having a openjdk 7 build would make sense.
>
>  2. Fedora can not distribute something that Fedora developers can not
>> support if there is a problem in it (as it is with Oracle JDK).
>>
>
> so *any* package that is known to be marked as EOL sometime in the future
> before the upcoming Fedora EOL's gets removed from that future Fedora
> release ? Even that Java 7 is still the most used and targeted Java version
> ?
>


Maybe I misunderstand the use-case, but your projects can still target Java
7 even if Eclipse is running on Java 8.


-- 
Mat Booth
http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora
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