Request to put ecj in F11 Beta

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Wed Mar 11 01:18:39 UTC 2009


On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 21:10 -0400, Deepak Bhole wrote:
> 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.

Ok, please file a ticket once the eclipse build is done.

-- 
Jesse Keating
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