[gentoo-java] Re: Merge of JDK/JRE 1.4.1 and 1.4.2

[Krzysiek Pawlik <nelchael@gentoo.org>]

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Petteri Räty wrote:
> Krzysiek Pawlik kirjoitti:
>> Every ebuild that has explicit 1.4.1 or 1.4.2 uses greater than operator (for
>> example >=virtual/jdk-1.4.1 or >=virtual/jdk-1.4.2). 1.4.1 is provided only by
>> kaffe, which provides 1.4.2 also.
>>
>> I'm willing to fix all ebuilds explicitly listing 1.4.x to require '1.4*' and
>> drop merge 1.4.1 and 1.4.2 into 1.4. That would give us consistency with 1.5,
>> 1.6 and 1.7.
> 
> I hope we are not talking about changing >=1.4.x to =1.4*? Sure cleanup
> is nice but eventually 1.4 will go away any way.

No, I'm talking about this:

 =1.4.1 ->  =1.4
 =1.4.2 ->  =1.4
 =1.4*  ->  =1.4
>=1.4.1 -> >=1.4
>=1.4.2 -> >=1.4

(basically killing everything after '4' and dropping 1.4.1 and 1.4.2)

I don't see us killing 1.4 anytime soon - it's still widely used (especially in
enterprise environments).

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