Pushing for default jdk / jre to become java/diablo-j{dk,re}
Garrett Cooper
youshi10 at u.washington.edu
Sat Mar 17 21:14:17 UTC 2007
Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 01:24:37PM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>> Hello all,
>> I was just wondering if there was any way where we -- as a group --
>> could push to make the default jdk / jre the diablo packaged versions
>> because frankly I don't want a system to assume that I want to compile
>> the 1.5 jdk / jre from scratch by first installing the linux v1.4.2 of
>> the jdk, and having to go through the long and arduous process of
>> compiling java, for little or no benefit (the only benefit would be for
>> different architectures that aren't available in diablo-jdk/-jre, like
>> sparc, powerpc). In that case one would be required to do the above process.
>>
>> It would be nice to add this in though so someone doesn't
>> accidentally take all that time and disk space compiling all for naught.
>
> Isn't it already the default (except on current where it does not
> run)?
>
> Kris
Oh, duh.. forgot that it doesn't work on -CURRENT. I need to remove Java
support from OOo then ><..
Thanks Kris,
-Garrett
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