#17279: Fix java version detection
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Reporter: jdemeyer | Owner:
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: blocker | Milestone: sage-6.4
Component: interfaces | Resolution:
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Comment (by gutow):
Replying to [comment:10 kcrisman]:
> Wait, wait. So is Java 1.7+ necessary to view Jmol applets from the
command line? Exactly what is it that needs 1.7?
Yes, because from the command line you run the Jmol application which is a
java application and now requires a recent JVM. A side note. I looked
carefully at how we comile Jmol. Interestingly, we actually compile Jmol
to be 1.6+ compatible, but it looks like the external gettext libraries
now require 1.7+ and we're not about to rewrite those. So people may only
run into this problem if they are using translations.
>If it's just the static images, then we could fail gracefully in the
notebook to Tachyon images when the Java is not recent enough. If I'm
not understanding this properly, sorry for the noise.
We already do that except that we were still accepting JVM >1.5, which no
longer works. I think we have to accept only 1.7+.
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