Am 01/22/2016 10:10 PM, schrieb Carl Marcum:
On 01/22/2016 12:04 PM, Marcus wrote:
Am 01/22/2016 01:22 PM, schrieb Jan Høydahl:
Probably not very future proof, since it will soon get outdated as
Java moves on to new versions.
+1
Please do not choose a Java platform that is getting out-of-date. This
is not helpful when it comes to bugs that will no longer be fixed.
Marcus
I understand.
My thought was that it would only be used as a fall back in case the
user had no JDK on their system so we don't have to ship the office with
reduced functionality.
I wasn't sure if it would be feasible.
sure, a bundled JRE as fallback solution would be very comfortable for
the user and to some degree I share your idea. But it has also some
disadvantages:
- Who is responsible for updating it when it's outdated (and the usual
JRE needs to be updated several times per year ;-) )? The user who has
installed it or AOO because it was bundled?
- Bundled software will increase the size of every download file
(currently Oracle's JRE "costs" ~40-60 MB [1]) - and AOO has already a
size that needs to be reduced better sooner than later.
- We have to keep the bundled JRE always up-to-date in the build process
which is some effort. At Sun/Oracle times this was done and the bundled
JRE was really often outdated and we had to update this with every new
OpenOffice release. I remember that we had to re-build everything too
often because it just was forgotten to update it.
As fallback solution a message box with text like "a suitable JRE wasn't
found, but needed for the functions a,b,c and therefore it should be
installed from xyz" is IMHO better.
But - as always ;-) - this is just my 2ct.
[1]
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jre8-downloads-2133155.html
Marcus
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