Request to put ecj in F11 Beta

[Deepak Bhole]

* Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> [2009-03-10 21:00]:
> On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 18:41 -0400, Andrew Overholt wrote:
> > * Deepak Bhole <dbhole at redhat.com> [2009-03-10 17:35]:
> > > 
> > > Can the ecj package please be tagged appropriately so that it makes it
> > > into F11 beta? The package was ready yesterday, but couldn't be built
> > > until today due to lack of cvs module. Here is the build link:
> > 
> > If this goes in, we'll also need the latest eclipse build (the one that
> > Deepak did a chain-build with this ecj build).
> 

The eclipse build that was part of the chain build failed due to a koji
error. I restarted the build and it is going on now:
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1235571

> What will the ecj build fix?  What will users miss if it's not in the
> beta and they get it after the beta?
> 

A separate ecj package will remove indirect gnome and mozilla
dependencies from java-1.5.0-gcj-compat. That package is pretty crucial
and is needed by lots of java libraries at the moment (since they are
Ahead-Of-Time compiled). Thus a standalone ecj will make it so that
simple java libraries don't end up pulling in all of gnome/mozilla/etc.

The reason we want it to go in beta is because we want the change tested
as much as possible, as some important java packages (like tomcat for
example) would be affected.

Cheers,
Deepak


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