On 06/17/2014 01:02 PM, Catonano wrote: > Ok, my question is naive. Still it's genuine. > > I don't know if the Oracle Java JRE is provided as source code or as a > binary. How is it provided ? > > Oracle JDK is required to have neo4j runnning, by the way. > > I'd like to get my feet wet trying to provide a recipe for it to nixpkgs. > > I could use some mentoring. > > Thanks > > > > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev >
I'd like to piggy-back on this thread: I was looking into packaging openjdk 8 today but the existing expressions seemed non-trivial and even weird at times: for example, openjdk pulls in version 6 on darwin and 7 on everything else… It seems like this would make a lot of code fail if we are to package Java programs: depending on openjdk in a project using Java 7 will fail on darwin but work on Linux… It seems like a more sensible solution would to provide more specific versions and if some platform can't do it then simply don't have the package for it rather than silently using something unexpected. Is anyone more well-versed planning to package more versions and possibly re-package what we have now into something which makes it more clear what we are installing? -- Mateusz K. _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
