If I remember right, forcing Windows installer is about an ads on the installer. I always hate to install JDK with installer on Windows.
If anyone there want to be "developer friendly", please, release JDK releases as simple zip archive. Thanks. 2016-07-12 11:17 GMT+03:00 Alan Bateman <alan.bate...@oracle.com>: > On 11/07/2016 18:30, Uwe Schindler wrote: > > : >> >> As far as I know, there is no reason to *require* an Windows installer, >> so I'd suggest to maybe provide both options. People who want the windows >> installer and also automatically install a public JRE can do so with the >> installer, all others just unzip! >> >> AFAIK, one of the reasons why the Windows download has the installer is > to register the location of the JRE or JDK in the Windows registry. I > completely agree that this is just not interesting in most server or > developer environments. Best to follow-up with Rory on this issue as > feedback on the EA builds. As noted previously the Jigsaw EA builds have > zip or tar balls for all platforms. > > -Alan > -- Rahman USTA Istanbul JUG https://github.com/rahmanusta <http://www.kodcu.com/>
