On 04.06.2012 22:21, Cameron Shorter wrote: > On 04/06/12 22:23, Angelos Tzotsos 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? > > 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.
i really expect *all* java projects to at least run with openjdk7 (with minor hickups at worst). > 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. this should be a worst case szenario that should be used only - if one project is actually not running /and/ really not able to fix it in time and - you are willing to install both jre's with jre7 as default (only the above projects would have to change their scripts in this case) ..ede/openjump _______________________________________________ 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
