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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Apr 27 01:33:16 -0700 2006 ------- We do not distinguish Solaris and Linux when searching the file system. But you have to bear in mind that a "standard" location and name of the installation directory may only be available if the JRE was preinstalled or by the package mamager. Still there are JREs as .bin or .sh files which can be installed anywhere, names can changed and links removed. What you have probably in mind is to restrict the search to just a couple of standard paths. However, as I indicated earlier, OOo depends on finding a JRE to be fully functional. The objective is that a user installs the office and can use it right away. Many "common" people do not know what Java is for and do not care. And having them select a JRE manually from the options dialog may be big hurdle. From my point of view we have only these possibilities. 1. A JRE is ALWAYS installed with OOo at a defined location. 2. Do a comprehensive search in order to find the best JRE possible. 3. Have a platform and vendor independent way of obtaining a Java Virtual Machine at runtime. 1 is not possible because some guidelines prevent this (SOLARIS), and is politically not feasible. 2 works reasonably but has its drawbacks 3. Different Java vendors have not realized how difficult it is for applications to use a java runtime in process. Ideally a application would simply link against a library and obtain a virtual machine by simply calling a function. But this is not possible right now. So we stick with 2 for the time being. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
