Am Sun, 30 Mar 2014 11:21:25 +0200 schrieb Guillaume ALAUX <guillaume@archlinux.org>:
Hi devs,
A new major version of Java went out recently [0]: "OpenJDK 8" but we do not have a package for it (for the following reason) and some Archers are asking questions [1] or flagging our openjdk7 package as out of date:
All Linux distros - including Arch - build OpenJDK using the IcedTea project [2]. Its goal is to cleanly build OpenJDK from Oracle, bring some more feature and it **was** also to re-implement closed source parts. I expected IcedTea to quickly release a version for OpenJDK8 but it seems this is not their first priority [3] (which I totally understand). Nowadays there is no closed source part anymore in OpenJDK, and the license is clearly "GPL with classpath exception" which is a standard in the Java world.
I have been working on a package based on OpenJDK8 built from source but without IcedTea that I think would fit to our repos. I still have some work for it to be released but I would be in favor of pushing this "OpenJDK without IcedTea" to extra until IcedTea v3.0 stable is out and could be used to build/augment our package.
Any thought/objection/remark about?
How about using icedtea master bzr shots to build openjdk8 until they publish a release? -Andy