On Sun 30, March 16:14:17 Guillaume Alaux wrote:
**We** (Arch Linux) do not patch anything here. We are just wondering which way to go between: 1- build from upstream OpenJDK by Oracle (the build process and result are kind of "dirty", it builds against included libraries that are shipped afterwards - libpng, libjpeg, ...) 2- build from upstream OpenJDK by Oracle AND upstream IcedTea on a pre-release version (are we OK with a pre-release on our repos? This could go to "testing"?) 3- ship an already built by Oracle binary version (not in favor of this one - this is what is in AUR as "jdk" and "jre") 4- do not ship Java 8 at all and wait for IcedTea8 stable to come out (when?)
I'd say to go for 1), I don't use IcedTea at all and I guess very few people do these days. And maybe those could use jre from AUR until icedtea8 is out. -- Andrea Arch Linux Developer