Proposed F19 Feature: Java 8

[Deepak Bhole]

* Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh at redhat.com> [2013-01-23 15:22]:
> On Wed 23 Jan 2013 02:53:30 PM EST, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
> > = Features/Java8TechPreview =
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Java8TechPreview
> >
> > Feature owner(s): Deepak Bhole <dbhole at redhat.com>
> >
> > Add a tech preview preview of the the upcoming version of Java (OpenJDK8) to
> > Fedora 19.
> >
> > == Detailed description ==
> > The current Java implementation in Fedora comes from OpenJDK.
> >
> > Java 8 (and OpenJDK8) are tentatively scheduled for release in September 2013.
> > Fedora 19 will most likely be out just a few months before that, and is
> > therefore positioned to receive a tech preview version of the latest OpenJDK8
> > candidates.
> 
> 
> Given that it's not expected to be in final release for Fedora 19, can
> we please ensure that we're talking about a parallel-installable
> version alongside OpenJDK 7 (and that Java packages for Fedora are kept
> compiled with OpenJDK 7 unless it is impossible to do so)?
>

Hi Stephen,

Not sure what you mean by "Given that it's not expected to be in final
release for Fedora 19" -- unless that was a typo and you meant that the
final version of OpenJDK8 is not expected to be in Fedora 19 ... in case
of latter, that holds true for GA. However OpenJDK8 final is expected to
be out in September and we will likely upgrade to it in F19 when it is
out.

As for it being parallel-installable, yes, that is definitely what we
will be doing. We will do exactly what we did with Fedora 16, whereby
OpenJDK6 and OpenJDK7 were installable in parallel. All packages in F16
were built with OpenJDK6 and similarly, everything in F19 will be built
with OpenJDK7. OpenJDK8 will be completely optional and nothing will
depend on it in F19.

We will not consider making OpenJDK8 the default at least until Fedora
20.

Cheers,
Deepak

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