F21 System Wide Change: Java 8

Tue May 6 08:29:38 UTC 2014

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Farkas Levente" <lfarkas at lfarkas.org>
> To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" <devel at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 6, 2014 11:23:18 AM
> Subject: Re: F21 System Wide Change: Java 8
> 
> is this version of eclipse be ported to rhel dev tools for rhel-6 and
> rhel-7?

As you probably have guessed I can not answer such questions. You can either speak to your TAM or wait for public announcements.

Alexander Kurtakov
Red Hat Eclipse team

> 
> On 05/06/2014 09:50 AM, Aleksandar Kurtakov wrote:
> > One of the biggest offenders (Eclipse) is now happily compiling(always has
> > been running fine) with Java 8 and while looking at fixing it many other
> > issues has been identified and fixed so personally I'm fine with OpenJDK7
> > being obsoleted now.
> > 
> > Alexander Kurtakov
> > Red Hat Eclipse team
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Aleksandar Kurtakov" <akurtako at redhat.com>
> >> To: "Deepak Bhole" <dbhole at redhat.com>, "Development discussions related
> >> to Fedora" <devel at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> >> Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2014 3:41:30 PM
> >> Subject: Re: F21 System Wide Change: Java 8
> >>
> >> 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
> >>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> Christopher L Tubbs II
> >>>> http://gravatar.com/ctubbsii
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> 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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