Re: IcedTea comps.xml patch

[Rahul Sundaram <sundaram fedoraproject org>]

Thomas Fitzsimmons wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I built the first IcedTea packages into Rawhide today.  Here is a 
> comps.xml patch that would replace GCJ with IcedTea in the Java and Java 
> Development groups, as well as install the plugin by default.  I'm 
> posting the patch mainly for discussion purposes.  It will not work for 
> ppc and ppc64 spins since IcedTea is currently only available on x86 and 
> x86_64.  Should we stick with GCJ as the default for Fedora 8 or switch 
> to IcedTea on the platforms on which it is available?

I am strongly in favor of getting IcedTea as the default for the 
platforms it is available especially since we can enable Java VM and 
applets out of the box (in a secure way unlike GCJ).

Rahul