[fedora-java] Re: icedtea-plugin rocks!

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Mon Sep 24 18:01:03 UTC 2007


On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 13:56:05 -0400
Thomas Fitzsimmons <fitzsim at redhat.com> wrote:

> This was for gcjwebplugin-on-libgcj.  The "icedtea-plugin rocks!"
> thread is referring to gcjwebplugin-on-IcedTea which is
> (audit-pending) much more secure. To make gcjwebplugin-on-IcedTea
> installed and enabled by default as the original poster is proposing,
> we'd need to have IcedTea available in comps.xml. It's too soon to
> replace GCJ with IcedTea, because of the architecture coverage
> issues, but does anyone see a problem with including IcedTea
> alongside GCJ in the default comps.xml?  That would mean that IcedTea
> and GCJ would be installed by default, and IcedTea would take
> precedence on architectures where it was available, and GCJ would be
> the fallback, selectable using alternatives. Then the IcedTea plugin
> would be installed by default on architectures where it is
> available.  I like this approach because there is demand for IcedTea
> to be included by default.

I thought this is what was going to be done anyway, that's the Feature
configuration I voted for.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?
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