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Hi, |
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As I mentioned in the thread "[gentoo-java] caucho-services, burlap and hessian |
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mess" I'm going to deprecate 1.4 - there was not much feedback on that topic ;) |
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Current plan is: |
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* migrate 5 remaining packages to generation 2 (or if masked remove them) - |
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current list (as of today): |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~nelchael/java-generation-2/not-migrated-20080713 |
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* make generation 1 eclasses die instead of QA violation warning |
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* change eclasses that have >?=virtual/jdk-1.4.* (java-gnome and php4_4-sapi) |
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* rev bump every package with >?=virtual/jdk-1.4.*: |
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* if package has soft dependency on 1.4 (>=1.4) - raise it to 1.4 - that's |
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the easy case |
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* if package has hard dependency on 1.4 (=1.4) - try to compile with 1.5, |
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eventually patch it to work |
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* if package refuses to compile/work with >1.4 - package.mask, slate for removal |
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* get all rev bumped packages stabilized (if package has stable version in |
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corresponding SLOT) |
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* remove old versions of touched packages |
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* remove java5 use flag |
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* start dropping generation 1 from the tree: |
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* make old eclasses a stub - so unmerge works |
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* remove generation 1 bits from JDK ebuilds |
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* package.mask java-config-1* |
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* remove virtual/jdk-1.4.1 |
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* clean up dev-java/* - prune old versions (for example currently: |
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java-config-wrapper - 3 stable versions in same SLOT) |
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What that huge change means to us? As you may (or may not) know Sun is stopping |
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support for 1.4 soon, so we need to move away from it. Also if we focus on |
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modern JDK versions (1.5, 1.6 and soon 1.7) we'll have less work, as most major |
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changes occurred between 1.4 and 1.5. Basically whatever is 1.5 compatible |
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should work with 1.6 and 1.7. |
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Note: that does NOT mean that I'm proposing to remove JDK 1.4 from the tree - it |
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will stay to people who need it can still use it. On the other hand few months |
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after Sun EOLs 1.4 we *should* consider dropping 1.4 JDKs. |
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If there are no objections I'm going to start the big changes around Friday (18 |
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July). I'm planning also to get a heads-up announcement in GMN for July. |
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I'm also asking everybody for help: when the process starts please start fixing |
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ebuilds too - changing 370 packages is not an easy task to take alone. |
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Jean-Noël: Eclipse is quite special case here: as 3.2* requires both: 1.4 and |
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1.5 - could you start the process of stabilizing 3.3.1.1-r1 ? |
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Krzysiek Pawlik <nelchael at gentoo.org> key id: 0xBC555551 |
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desktop-misc, java, apache, ppc, vim, kernel, python... |
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