Java 7 for Fedora 16

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 11:29:33AM -0400, Deepak Bhole wrote:
> 
> Andrew Haley and I just had a chat about this.
> 
> We both agree that weaning off the 1.6 dependency is the best long-term
> solution. We essentially want it so that nothing in Fedora needs 1.6.
> 
> That said, we will continue to ship 1.6 since 3rd party apps may need
> it. We will however remove the alternatives for 1.6, so using them will
> require the user to manually set JAVA_HOME to
> /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0..../ and call the java binary from that dir.
> This will prevent someone from accidentally switching the system
> alterne ative to 1.6 and having (1.7 built) apps fail.
> 
Look into environment-modules as a possible aid to the end user :

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:EnvironmentModules

I've always wondered why we used alternatives for java when it seems like
it's a per user or per application setting rather than a per-host setting
anyway.


> Are there any major objections to the above?
> 
Yeah, I'm with Peter Robinson that this change is coming too late in the
cycle.  Alpha has already shipped.  FESCo could disagree but it *must* go to
FESCo for them to give you permission.

> In the mean time, I am going to start building all java packages
> currently in F16 against 1.7 only to see the scope of changes that will
> be needed.
> to east
>
Do you need a separate build tag setup so you can do this testing without
disturbing normal builds?

-Toshio
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