Gentoo Archives: gentoo-java

From: "Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@g.o>
To: Gentoo Java <gentoo-java@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-java] Deprecating JDK 1.4
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:19:01
Message-Id: 49D10C74.2030100@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-java] Deprecating JDK 1.4 by Serkan Kaba
1 Serkan Kaba wrote:
2 > Petteri Räty yazm1_:
3 >> Krzysiek Pawlik kirjoitti:
4 >>>> Yeah just check for reverse deps.
5 >>> Sure - that's the important (and time consuming) part.
6 >>>
7 >> Just use the proper tools and it's not that time consuming.
8 >
9 >> Regards,
10 >> Petteri
11 >
12 > We now have it EOLed and a security bug[1] is reported. What's the
13 > status here?
14 >
15 > 1: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=263810
16
17 I think the easiest approach is to modify java-config to support VMs
18 marked as being build only. Then in time fix everything that only builds
19 with 1.4 and nuke 1.4 from the tree.
20
21 Regards,
22 Petteri

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