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Re: [PATCH] Rename icedtea{6,7}.
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: [PATCH] Rename icedtea{6,7}. |
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Wed, 06 Jan 2016 14:39:09 +0100 |
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Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skribis:
> GCJ unfortunately only implements Java 1.5 (and that only works because
> they use a prebuilt binary of the Eclipse compiler since 2007). Later
> JDKs demand a compiler for Java 1.6+.
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> It would be nice if GCJ were updated to support 1.6. The latest version
> of GNU Classpath already contains some support for 1.6 APIs, but is
> incomplete compared to OpenJDK6:
Unfortunately GCJ never really took off and the company that funded its
development eventually dropped the ball. It doesn’t receive much beyond
casual build fixes nowadays.
Ludo’.