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On Fri, 17 Nov 2017 03:24:47 -0500 |
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"William L. Thomson Jr." <wlt-ml@××××××.com> wrote: |
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> The icedtea from source ebuild is a result of RedHat. The main person |
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> at RedHat responsible for their open source Java is the author of |
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> Icedtea. He uses Gentoo as his development/test platform. Gentoo |
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> usually will have that at least the same time as others, if not before |
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> all others. |
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> If it was not for him, and RedHat paying him. I doubt Gentoo would |
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> have from source Java. Not to discount Chewi/James efforts. But the |
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> author of Icedtea is the one maintaining that in java-overlay. |
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Something to keep in mind. Part of why Icedtea lags like with Java 9. |
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The Icedtea author as part of their role at RedHat is responsible for |
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older versions as well. Much of their time is consumed in dealing with |
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older. Thus the latest does not always get as much time, or 100%. |
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Next month 1.6 ends, but with 9 out not sure it helps. Still has 1.7 |
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and 1.8 for some time to come. They have to maintain 3 versions... |
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https://access.redhat.com/articles/1299013 |
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William L. Thomson Jr. |
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