[arch-general] Java 8

[Guillaume ALAUX]

On 29 March 2014 01:02, Guillaume ALAUX <guillaume at archlinux.org> wrote:
> On 28 March 2014 18:30, Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I'm just wondering what the plan is, if any,  for getting java 8
>> packages into arch?
>>
>> --
>> Caleb Cushing
>>
>> http://xenoterracide.com
>>
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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.html