Hi,
On 05/31/2012 02:24 PM, Fernando Lozano wrote:
>> I find this design decision very odd, exactly for the reasons
you
>> mentioned. Java 7 is, to my knowledge, far from universally supported. I
>> would have waited for at least another release or two before phasing out
>> Java 6.
> We did think about it, but OpenJDK 6 is going to be EOL'd this year, with
> a complete cessation of updates.
I can understand you wish to compile everything using OpenJDK7, but why
don't keep OpenJDK6 on the repos as an option, just like you did with
java-1.5.0-gcj ?
Long-term support for releases of packages that are dead upstream
undoubtedly makes sense for some distros, but Fedora doesn't do it.
Fedora has a fairly short lifetime, and OpenJDK 6 will be EOL before
the end of it.
Andrew.