[IdPv3] Targeting Java 7

Kaspar Brand kaspar.brand at switch.ch
Tue Oct 25 16:05:02 BST 2011


On 25.10.11 15:19, Cantor, Scott wrote:
> The fact is though, they did go from the gcj mess to OpenJDK 6 in the RHEL
> 5 lifecycle. I realize that's an outlier, but I raised this same point in
> private.

AFAICT RHEL 5 did not have the java-*-gcj packages (i.e., no JRE - only
the GCJ compiler stuff). OpenJDK was introduced with 5.3, but as an
additional/new package.

RHEL 6, BTW, provides both java-1.5.0-gcj and java-1.6.0-openjdk.

Kaspar


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