{"id":16,"date":"2007-05-09T06:06:29","date_gmt":"2007-05-09T10:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/46.19.32.152\/blog\/?p=16"},"modified":"2015-10-26T20:31:46","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T00:31:46","slug":"icedtea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/?p=16","title":{"rendered":"IcedTea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I packaged the new code drop from the <a href=\"http:\/\/openjdk.java.net\">OpenJDK<\/a> project using the JPackage conventions.  Because naming rules are still being worked out for derivatives of OpenJDK code, I&#8217;ve decided to call the result &#8220;java-1.7.0-icedtea&#8221;.  This is just a preliminary development package; I hope Sun will approve renaming it &#8220;java-1.7.0-openjdk&#8221; or &#8220;java-1.6.0-openjdk&#8221; when it officially lands in Fedora.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/people.redhat.com\/fitzsim\/java-1.7.0-icedtea-1.7.0.0-0.1.nonfree.src.rpm\">http:\/\/people.redhat.com\/fitzsim\/java-1.7.0-icedtea-1.7.0.0-0.1.nonfree.src.rpm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The OpenJDK build still depends on some non-free software so I&#8217;m providing an SRPM containing only the GPL&#8217;d code.  People interested in building the complete not-fully-free OpenJDK can fill the gaps with binary plugs.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to investigate eliminating the non-free requirements.  I haven&#8217;t studied the code enough to know if it&#8217;s worth producing a fully free build before starting encumbrance replacement efforts &#8212; it depends how much functionality is lost by excluding the binary blobs.  Another interesting experiment would be bootstrapping OpenJDK with a free runtime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I packaged the new code drop from the OpenJDK project using the JPackage conventions. Because naming rules are still being worked out for derivatives of OpenJDK code, I&#8217;ve decided to call the result &#8220;java-1.7.0-icedtea&#8221;. This is just a preliminary development package; I hope Sun will approve renaming it &#8220;java-1.7.0-openjdk&#8221; or &#8220;java-1.6.0-openjdk&#8221; when it officially lands &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/?p=16\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;IcedTea&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}