On 6/17/13 4:02 PM, Kelly O'Hair wrote:
Rule #1 Nobody reads the README
Rule #2 When things go wrong, blame the README
I of course have no objection to the change, however, I'm not convinced it will
help much the next time someone runs into this. :^(
Hi Kelly! You still read this stuff here? :-)
Yeah, I have no illusions that changing the README will prevent many, if any,
future occurrences of this problem. However, we had an internal discussion on
this incident where the N-1 rule was asserted. There was no dispute about the
rule, but I went off to find where it was documented, and found only the fairly
weak statement in the README. So, at the very least, that ought to be fixed.
A stronger step would be to modify configure to check the version of the boot
JDK and to complain if it doesn't match N-1. Or perhaps even N-1 and update >=
7. What do you think? I was considering filing an RFE.
A restriction in configure would probably be more effective at preventing these
kinds of errors.
s'marks
