[oe] meta-java - recent commits break foreign (MY!) builds ...

[Otavio Salvador]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 3:59 AM, Richard Leitner
<richard.leitner at skidata.com> wrote:
> On 08/27/2015 03:28 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>>
>> Yes, we need to fix it and to be honest I personally would kill
>> openjdk 7 once 8 is ready.
>>
> I think we should keep (and UPDATE!) openjdk 6 & 7 as long as they get
> support from RedHat and therefore IcedTea. There may be users relying on
> the old java version for their long-term-supported products (so do we)!
>
> IMHO we should start with openjdk 6: remove the old versions and add the
> latest (1.13.8)!
>
> What do you think? Any comments?

If you are willing to work on that, I have no problem.

The point is Java is complex and we have few people working on this so
I prefer one well maintained version than 3 oddly ones.

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