Arch Linux Prepares For Python 3.7, Drops OpenJDK 9

[nanonyme]

The latest version of Icedtea-web only works on JDK8 and 9. Trying to build icedtea-web against OpenJDK 10 only returns an error at ./configure.

Dropping JDK9 is asking to be slaughtered if the user does not have a spare build of JDK8 present on their installation.

Wait what web? Java web browser plugin is officially dead if you mean that https://www.java.com/en/download/faq/jdk9_plugin.xml

[Sonadow]

Wait what web? Java web browser plugin is officially dead if you mean that https://www.java.com/en/download/faq/jdk9_plugin.xml

Who cares about that antiquated browser plugin?

The appliances I'm assigned to support and manage use Java Web Start for their management interface. IcedTea-web's javaws binary executable is the only thing that can be used to launch those JNLPs on a Linux box.

I'm not using the assigned Windows notebook at work because it has a bad Windows image and IT isn't allowing me to load a clean Windows installation over it, so I've taken advantage of the company's BYOD policy to use my own notebook instead.

Sure I could use Oracle's official Java binaries, but i'll prefer to use my own builds of OpenJDK and IcedTea-web as much as possible.

[caligula]

It seems the arch repository doesn't contain javafx 10 either? So how can they drop the old?

[Guest]

I think jdk8 is still present in the repos. Pycharm didn't work with jdk9 so I stopped using it.

[Vistaus]

Who cares about that antiquated browser plugin?

The appliances I'm assigned to support and manage use Java Web Start for their management interface. IcedTea-web's javaws binary executable is the only thing that can be used to launch those JNLPs on a Linux box.

I'm not using the assigned Windows notebook at work because it has a bad Windows image and IT isn't allowing me to load a clean Windows installation over it, so I've taken advantage of the company's BYOD policy to use my own notebook instead.

Sure I could use Oracle's official Java binaries, but i'll prefer to use my own builds of OpenJDK and IcedTea-web as much as possible.

But if you need your laptop for work, you probably won't use Arch so this is a non-issue, really.

[Hi-Angel]

But if you need your laptop for work, you probably won't use Arch so this is a non-issue, really.

Why wouldn't you? I'm using Archlinux at work. It has advantage of α) having a simple system to download, unpack, build something, and then assemble a package from it (i.e. a PKGBUILD), and β) it has lots of ready PKGBUILDs for different projects in AUR.

[Vistaus]

Why wouldn't you? I'm using Archlinux at work.

Because for a work laptop you need absolute stability?

[Hi-Angel]

Because for a work laptop you need absolute stability?

It really depends. I think AUR and PKBUILD-format have saved me much more time than I have spent or probably will spend dealing with a possible regression or even something caused by one of those prohibited "partial upgrades" (though that said, I have a good mental grasp on what can go wrong, and how to go about solving something).