Re: Request for review: Bug 100054: Make building the Nimbus look 'n' feel optional

[Jonathan Gibbons]

The irony here is that yesterday I updated my laptop to Ubuntu 9.04, and
(a) the Mercurial package does not completely install correctly
(b) even if it did, it is version 1.1.2.something, and OpenJDK requires
        0.9.5.
The point being that if people need version X of something they will
download and use it one way or another.

-- Jon

On May 15, 2009, at 6:39 AM, Andrew Haley wrote:

Peter Zhelezniakov wrote:

Andrew Haley wrote:

We are not in a position to dictate to a user exactly which version of

JIBX will be installed on their system.  Therefore, if JIBX is now a
dependency of OpenJDK we'll have to find a way to make OpenJDK work
with whatever versions of JIBX people choose.

To make it clear: JIBX is not a runtime dependency. It is used at build

time only.

OpenJDK does work regardless of JIBX presence.

Sure, thanks for clarifying, but it makes no difference to the real
situation: we are not in a position to dictate to someone building

OpenJDK exactly which version of JIBX will be installed on their system.

The build systems used by distros aren't guaranteed to have exactly
Version X of JIBX.

Andrew.