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Mike Pagano wrote: |
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> Much thanks and appreciation to the Gentoo java Team for their work on |
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> 1.5. |
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> I am in no rush to see 1.6, but as a developer I am just curious to |
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> know how you feel about the design and implementation decisions you |
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> made for 1.5. Do you feel it will facilitate the release of 1.6 |
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> quicker and easier for your guys or do you expect a smaller but |
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> similar amount of work to do before it can be released for Gentoo |
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> users? |
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It's going to be trivial to support 1.6. One of the main strategies of |
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the new system has been that it will switch VMs at build time |
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appropriately. So, if there is a package which doesn't build against |
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1.6, it will build with 1.5 or whatever instead. |
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We've been testing with 1.6 betas for several months now, so most |
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packages that break with it have been already updated to use 1.5 |
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instead. Of course, at some point, we will want to get the packages |
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properly patched so they compile cleanly against 1.6, but the new system |
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gives us breathing room to do this at our leisure. |
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Joshua Nichols |
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Gentoo/Java - Project Lead |
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