Angelos wrote: > > What should be our policy in case of a project still > > dependent on openjdk6 close to release date? Shall we > > exclude it from the disk for version 6.0?
Cameron wrote: > I'd like hear back from projects before we make this call. > I think our options are: > 1. Only ship with openjdk7 and expect all projects to > migrate to openjdk7. This would be my preference if > possible, as we will be able to save disk space, which we > can use for including new applications. > > 2. Ship with openjdk6 and 7, and have applications select > which version they are using in their startup script. This > will probably require all java applications to update their > startup script to select the java version they require > during initialisation. since the 'default-jdk' package on Ubuntu 12.04 is depending on openjdk-6-jdk, it seems a mixed message to then penalize projects for "doing the right thing" by using the official OS sources, when we're trying to encourage packaging into the OS. Hamish _______________________________________________ Live-demo mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo http://live.osgeo.org http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc
