[oe] State of Java on OE

[Stefano Babic]

On 22/04/2017 00:25, Steven Osborn wrote:
> Is anyone using Java on OE devices right now?
> 
> meta-java - no release branches.  Seems to only be focused on master.
> I've had trouble even finding a revision that will compile on Morty.
> 
> meta-oracle-java has a Morty branch, but the URI for the binaries is
> bad so it fails to install.
> 
> Overall it seems like Java is not a very favored or platform at the moment.
> 

I have got the same problems - the missing of release branches in
meta-java is quite confusing. -master does not work with last releases,
and everybody have to find working commit id for each release. And after
that, cherry-picking something from -master to fix global issue (it was
for me dependency's issue with classpath).

Maybe we have to try to propose the maintainers to set release branches
as usual.

Regards,
Stefano

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