Java 7 for Fedora 16

[Omair Majid]

On 07/25/2011 04:04 PM, Deepak Bhole wrote:
> * Bill Nottingham<notting at redhat.com>  [2011-07-25 15:54]:
>> Toshio Kuratomi (a.badger at gmail.com) said:
>>> Robyn and I have talked about how the feature process could be adapted to
>>> allow for more late work to occur however none of that talk has turned into
>>> anything solid yet.  One point that bears on this is that the Feature Owners
>>> must be willing to commit to doing all the work involved in coordination
>>> when they submit something late.  In other words, if Java 7 update went in
>>> well before the feature deadline, the expectation would be that packagers
>>> whose packages depended on Java would need to adapt to Java 7.  The
>>> expectation now that the Feature Freeze has passed is that the people
>>> pushing Java 7 into the repos would also need to seek out and fix all the
>>> packages that depend on them that are broken.
>>
>> Would we actually be shipping only 7, or both 6 and 7?
>>
>
> This hasn't been debated yet, but I am very much in favour of having
> only 7 in Fedora 16.
>
> If the reason for asking was w.r.t re-builds, it is unlikely that most
> applications will need a rebuild -- only those using deprecated APIs
> (which would have been deprecated for years now) and private APIs would
> be affected. That would likely be a small subset.

Have you seen the list of incompatibilities?

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/compatibility-417013.html

Cheers,
Omair