On 29 March 2014 01:02, 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?
-- Caleb Cushing
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Hello,
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
-- Guillaume
Hi, I brought this to arch-dev-public [0] so that Arch devs could discuss what could be done. Feel free to comment here as arch-dev-public is read-only for non devs. [0] https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2014-March/026076.ht...