On 03/18/2015 09:29 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > Larry, that's great. I saw that in a screen shot that showed both of > them installed. > > Please add that link to Bugzilla issue 126130. If you don't have an > account there, let me know and I will do it.
OK, I see Larry has done this. I took a cursory look at Ariels's Comment 7 also. It would help if we knew what particular functions of AOO failed without the use of Java 6. Many months ago, I tried to get, through additional java flags, what problems any of our java code might be causing for java 7 specifically. Some methods we are using are deprecated, but I didn't interpret these as show stoppers. However, I will upgrade to Java 8, and run through this scenario again to see what comes out. Thanks for all the comments. > > Oh, and MAC users need to know that they can have multiple JRE > installations, so there is no need to uninstall a later one or fear > that installing a Java 6 VM is going to limit them from the latest > somehow. Some reporters seem to get snarled up with that and bounce > out of the Java 6 update page because there is so much encouragement > to go download the latest (Java 8 now). > > - Dennis > > -----Original Message----- From: Larry Gusaas > [mailto:larry.gus...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2015 20:54 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Java 8 and AOO > > On 2015-03-17, 6:41 PM Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: >> The problems I've seen reported are apparently all on MacOS. >> Something about needing a legacy Java 6 to work and there is no way >> for the user to accomplish that, apparently. > Apache OpenOffice works with Java 8, but you also need to have Java 6 > installed. Java 6 for Macs was provided by Apple, not Oracle. To > download it go to http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1572 > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- MzK “What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?” -- John Green, "An Abundance of Katherines" --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
