Re: No default OpenJDK version?

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hi,

Markku Korkeala <markku.korkeala@iki.fi> writes:

> On Tue, Apr 16, 2024 at 10:37:30PM +0200, Julien Lepiller wrote:
>> Currently, most java packages use the implicit jdk from the build
>> system (ant- or maven-build-system), which is… icedtea@8. We still
>> have quite a lot of old packages that don't build with openjdk9, so
>> I'm not sure when we can update the default jdk…
>
> Hi,
>
> is there effort to update the default jdk at some point? I could help with
> it. I'm not familiar with the guix java build systems, but have long
> experience as a Java developer. I also maintain few java packages in Fedora
> and saw the transition to to jdk11 [1], jdk17 [2] and now to jdk21 [3]. The
> pages have documented common issues and workarounds, which might help.

I'm not aware of such effort in Guix currently, so feel free to
spearhead it!  It'd be beneficial, although I supposed difficult to
achieve due to bootstrap reasons, perhaps.

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Thanks,
Maxim