[IdPv3] Targeting Java 7

[Chad La Joie]

Well, I'm guessing they are realizing that the policy of not upgrading
anything for years and years isn't very helpful in the real world.
Stability is one thing, ossification is another.

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 17:03, Brent Putman <putmanb at georgetown.edu> wrote:
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> On 10/25/11 12:26 PM, Cantor, Scott wrote:
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>> That's what I mean. They added JDK 1.6 via OpenJDK into the base package
>> set in the middle of the RHEL5 release cycle. That isn't something they
>> typically do when they already have a version of the same software
>> included, however bad it is.
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> Just some more data points: I'll note that in RHEL 5 they also recently
> starting offering a 'php53' set of packages for PHP 5.3, in addition to
> the 'php' set (which is PHP 5.1).  They also seem to have actually
> bumped the version of the subversion package from 1.4.* to 1.6.*, which
> I was a little surprised to see so late in the release cycle.
>
> Perhaps they are becoming a little less conservative in what they are
> willing to introduce in the middle of a RHEL cycle...?
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