nicolas vigier a écrit :
On Wed, 23 Nov 2011, Alejandro López wrote:
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 1:32 AM, D.Morgan<[email protected]> wrote:
On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Markus Ueberall
<[email protected]> wrote:
Am 18.11.2011 04:52, schrieb David W. Hodgins:
Agreed. Just want to make sure that anyone who is using the
sun java package from the repositories know that they must
get the latest security updates directly from java.com, as
the packages in the Mageia repositories are not being updated.
Regards, Dave Hodgins
Hi,
I wonder whether it is feasible to come up with a "get-sun-java" rpm
which uses the same mechanism as the get-skype rpm for those who
need/prefer Oracle's implementation?
Ad astra, Markus
Why ? openjdk is good enough to replace oracle java.
and soonish we will have java7 too in mageia so i really don't see now
the need of the closed source one.
Everything you said is true, but let me disagree with your question. Why
not? Some users might prefer Oracle's java, while others might rather use
OpenJDK. As long as there are volunteers for maintaining both packages, why
shou;d it be one or the other? Why not providing both?
There is maybe volunteers to maintain oracle java package, but I don't
think there is many volunteers to maintain the full java stack with both
JVMs. We already have too few people maintaining the java packages, so
if we can avoid giving them more work by supporting multiple JVMs,
that's better.
That's also why we try to have if possible only one version of gcc, perl,
python, ruby, etc ...
I agree. We have lots of other areas to put our packaging ressources.
As well, unless the policy has changed, users can get automatic update
notices for Sun java.
Also, I've noticed that some (if not most) packages which required Sun
java in the past (from upstream bug reports) now work well with OpenJDK.
--
André
