> On Oct 3, 2015, at 11:28, Jack Howarth <howarth.at.f...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 2:18 PM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser 
> <f...@snaggledworks.com <mailto:f...@snaggledworks.com>> wrote:
> If I'm reading fink-virtual-packages correctly, 1.6 was the last version
> provided by Apple, and 1.7+ must be gotten from Oracle. Is that correct?

Correct.

>   When Martin's fix gets released, would best practices be to keep
> pointing packages to system-java16 since its a system tool, or would it
> be preferred to point to a newer java if the package allows it
> (virtuoso, which started this thread, has the option to use java17)?
> Java16 is really old.
> 
> 
> There are a few packages like rstudio-desktop/server whose builds still 
> demand the framework java. Unfortunately, I suspect upstream won't bother to 
> fix that until java16 actually disappears in 10.12.
>  
> Hanspeter
> 

Most Java packages are happy to use the newest Java on the system.  The best 
practice is to avoid a versioned system-java dependency at all, and failing 
that to use the newest java major version that the package supports.

-- 
Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
Fink User Liaison

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