IcedTea comps.xml patch

[Hans de Goede]

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

Regards,

Hans