On 30 March 2014 19:47, Javier Vasquez <j.e.vasquez.v@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 6:02 PM, Guillaume ALAUX <guillaume@archlinux.org> wrote:
On 28 March 2014 18:30, Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm just wondering what the plan is, if any, for getting java 8 packages into arch?
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There is no official Java 8 package in Arch Linux because the OpenJDK we provide uses the IcedTea [0] but unfortunately IcedTea has no stable version available **yet** for Java 8. More details about IcedTea roadmap here [1]. So the plan (for me at least) is to wait for IcedTea 3.0 that will support Java 8. Shipping a "vanilla" OpenJDK8 into extra (possibly from the binaries provided by Oracle) could be an option in the meantime.
[0] http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/Main_Page [1] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2014-March/026727.html
I'm curious why such hurry? Is 7 broken, or is it a security weakness? Why not waiting for icedtea8 to be released? If it's not clear when, then why not interacting with upstream to find out, and provide help if needed (testing or whatever)?
-- Javier.
You are right in that there is no particular hurry: 7 is not broken nor is there any particular weakness. Nevertheless OpenJDK8 is now officially out and in a stable release so it should be packaged at one time. Waiting for IcedTea8 is a possibility that I mentionned on arch-dev-public [0]. As for when it will be released, IcedTea devs state "probably based on u20" but I admit this does not give me even a rough idea of when this should be. This I am going to ask on the IcedTea mailing list. This would help in making the decision. [0] https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2014-March/026082.ht...