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Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:37:00 +0200
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Re: Results from Plenary Discussion
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Hi Troy,

thanks for the info.

On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Troy Dawson wrote:
[...]
> Discussion Topic: Java - when will we upgrade to Java 1.6?
> Conclusion:  Many scientific programs really need us to update to java 1.6, 
> the biggest name is dCache.
> We will put the latest java 1.6 into testing and let people test it for a 
> month.  If we don't have any show stoppers, we will push it out on December 
> 1, 2008

Maybe OpenJDK6 is the way to go here, instead of using the SUN RPMs?

There are EPEL RPMs - including the browser plugin for x86_64. And just 
imagine signed packages and painless updates...

Cheers,
 	Stepahn

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Stephan Wiesand
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