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Andrew John Hughes kirjoitti: |
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> 2008/9/12 Petteri Räty <betelgeuse@g.o>: |
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>> Andrew John Hughes kirjoitti: |
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>>> For those who hate the aboration of having the version number as part |
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>>> of the package name, note that this is intended to be short-lived. |
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>>> As the discussion above implies, the OpenJDK6 tree is a stop-gap, |
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>>> created to fulfill the need for a complete implementation now. |
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>>> When 1.7 is released, IcedTea will become the primary JDK again and |
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>>> IcedTea6 will cease development. At present, most of the |
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>>> maintenance work for OpenJDK6/IcedTea6 is being done by the IcedTea |
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>>> hackers; Sun only have Joe Darcy working on this. Their |
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>>> concentration is on 1.7. Thus, we should really note our appreciation |
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>>> of this work by naming the IcedTea project rather than |
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>>> hiding it under the name OpenJDK. |
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>>> |
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>> A good post and hopefully useful to readers out there but my main concern |
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>> really wasn't the issue of openjdk vs. icedtea but your choice of naming it |
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>> icedtea6 and icedtea (Debian like) instead of doing it the Gentoo way with |
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>> slots. |
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> I didn't include this issue because I believed we'd already discussed it ages |
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> ago and I'm surprised to see it come up again. There is nothing Debian-like |
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> about the naming - in fact, Debian has only packaged IcedTea6 recently, |
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> and does so as OpenJDK - I mentioned this in my original e-mail. It is |
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> Sun who refer to it as OpenJDK6 or even open6, in the same manner as JDK7, etc. |
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> Anyway, what I'm saying is that this isn't a name change simply based |
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> on versions |
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> but these are completely different projects. There have different source trees |
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> and can be in completely different states, depending on what has been |
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> merged between |
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> the two. More practically, there would be version number clashes with |
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> keeping them |
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> both in a 'icedtea' directory, IcedTea 1.7 appearing to be later than |
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> IcedTea6 1.2 for one. |
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The version number clashes can be solved with using <upstream |
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drop>.<iced tea>. I really don't think this situation is much different |
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from for example kde 3.5 and 4. Both trees are in active development and |
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in different slots. It's still the same upstream project as far as |
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upstream infra like home page goes. |
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Regards, |
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Petteri |