Folks- OK, I am still looking at the proposal to include the JRE checkbox on the download button, and I would like to again bring up an issue I brought up well almost a yr ago now.
* why do we *by default* include a JRE? I still would argue this is NOT a good idea or necessary for the most part * ok, we, by default include a JRE but well, where do we tell them which version it is. Shouldn't this be in the "Release Notes"? * I really think it would be better to check for some kind of JRE already installed and "alert" the user that we don't *think* have it and they should install it for "full" functionality if they don't have it. And, some details on what will happen if they don't have it are explained on this page: (see http://download.openoffice.org/common/java.html -- and this full functionality is NOT explained) but not all. I had been working on the java detection part a while back with mixed results. But, at the worst, the process seemed to fail on the false positive side (had JRE but not detected) rather than the other way around. I know the additional JRE probably doesn't take up a lot of room really, but it's a question of security and maintenance as far as I'm concerned. Thoughts/comments? I can probably get the new idea to work...but...I'm still not convinced this is really the best approach. And, I think it would far better to spell out what the consequences will be is you don't have a JRE. -- ============================================================ Kay Schenk "#51: Sometimes, you're wrong." -- from the rules of Jethro Gibbs, "NCIS" --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
