F21 System Wide Change: Java 8

[Aleksandar Kurtakov]

I'm not proposing having OpenJDK7 in Fedora 21. What I'm asking for is to have them both for a month or two before obsoleting so transition can be smoother if problems appear. 

Alexander Kurtakov
Red Hat Eclipse team

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Deepak Bhole" <dbhole at redhat.com>
> To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" <devel at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2014 3:31:59 PM
> Subject: Re: F21 System Wide Change: Java 8
> 
> * Christopher <ctubbsii at apache.org> [2014-03-25 19:59]:
> > I also would like to see 1.7.0 stick around for awhile. Not
> > necessarily as the default, but at least available in the repos. As it
> > stands, it's difficult to use a modern Fedora on projects that are
> > still developing against JDK 1.6.
> > 
> 
> Unfortunately, OpenJDK7 will be EOLd in April 2015[1], which is within
> the support time-frame of the F21. This is one the reasons why we would
> like to be able to switch over to OpenJDK8 asap for F21.
> 
> 1: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html
> 
> Deepak
> 
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> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 4:05 PM, Aleksandar Kurtakov
> > <akurtako at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > Please keep java 1.7.0 around for some time. It would make moving easier
> > > if we have to jump back for a build or two.
> > >
> > > Alexander Kurtakov
> > > Red Hat Eclipse team
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > >> From: "Omair Majid" <omajid at redhat.com>
> > >> To: "Development discussions related to Fedora"
> > >> <devel at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> > >> Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2014 9:07:39 PM
> > >> Subject: Re: F21 System Wide Change: Java 8
> > >>
> > >> * Mikolaj Izdebski <mizdebsk at redhat.com> [2014-03-24 11:55]:
> > >> > That's exactly the problem.  We need to use a modified version of
> > >> > java-1.8.0-openjdk with extra provides and adjusted priorities for
> > >> > alternatives.
> > >>
> > >> I have started a new java-1.8.0-openjdk build that should fix this:
> > >> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=506921
> > >>
> > >> >               Blocking java-1.7.0-oepnjdk may also be required.  This
> > >> > makes it impossible to scratch-build Java packages using f21-build
> > >> > target in current state.
> > >>
> > >> Is there anything I can/should do here? Shall I file a rel-eng ticket to
> > >> block java-1.7.0-openjdk? Would it be worth waiting a little while to
> > >> ensure that there are no show-stopper bugs in java-1.8.0-openjdk?
> > >>
> > >> Thanks,
> > >> Omair
> > >>
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