On 2017-06-20 20:07, nicolas.mail...@laposte.net wrote:
Hi,

Frankly, the proposed change seems a great way to accumulate technical debt at 
a rapid pace, by helping apps to specify various legacy or proprietary Java 
variants, and postponing taking into account openjdk changes indefinitely.

Why do you think so? The proposal doesn't say anything like that. It doesn't let apps specify their Java. The setting for Java applications will still be global.

Moreover, Fedora doesn't ship legacy or proprietary Java variants.


That's more or less what the proprietary unixes did till the whole house of 
cards collapsed under the weight of long overdue migration needs.

IIRC the whole alternative system already lets an app specify a specific java 
version and producer (at least it did in JPackage time). What it does not let 
people do is to pretend an app is java-version and java-producer agnostic when 
it isn't.

%jpackage_script generated launcher scripts don't let an app specify java version/provider and that will stay the same.

Michael
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