Fedora 20 used to have 3 different Java versions (5, 7, 8).
ok, why no Java 6 ?
Besides many technical reason the biggest one is non-technical in my
eyes - no one volunteered to do it. You know it's always a matter of
"who will do the work?". I'm pretty sure that if someone jumps in and
say "Hey, I'll maintain Java 6, fix problems/adopt Java 6 to changes
in the OS if neeeded, help strengthen the switching between JREs, go
through the Java projects(shipped in Fedora) and help them properly
set their targets in build scripts so builds properly work on Java 6
and etc" there will be no objection to having Java 6. :)
Fair enough.
OpenJDK 7
was removed from F21 because its support will end before F21 EOL and
we
don't want to ship software not supported by upstream.
So for users most stable thing is to use Oracle JDK builds instead
which
are and will stay available ?
Users can still try to use it but it's something that they have to do
on their own - download, extract, set PATH, etc. Just like on every
platform with Oracle JVM.
Yeah, this is similar experience for developers on all other platforms
so its expected/assumed.
No separate repo with "binaries that is currently supported but will
not
stay supported for all of fedora 21 lifetime" ?
1. Fedora can not legally redistribute Oracle JDK.
I know - hence why I would think having a openjdk 7 build would make
sense.
2. Fedora can not distribute something that Fedora developers can not
support if there is a problem in it (as it is with Oracle JDK).
so *any* package that is known to be marked as EOL sometime in the
future before the upcoming Fedora EOL's gets removed from that future
Fedora release ? Even that Java 7 is still the most used and targeted
Java version ?
How does fedora handle it when a package stops being maintained
midstream with not proper warning ? Do they get removed or just lets
getting be stale ?
If removed - why couldn't that be done for Java7 ?
If just letting get stale - why couldn't that be done for Java7 ?
And I assume the answers is you just don't have time/power to maintain
it and thats is fully grokkable - but then
it seems to me it would be good for users if we at least explain how
they can use another Java 7 in fedora eclipse context (which was the
initial question here)
Thus is the answer to that to tell users to have their custom
eclipse.ini pointing at the oracle JDK 7 and then
launch eclipse pointing to the vm ?
Like 'eclipse --launcher.ini <ini.location>'
As described in https://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse.ini and
http://help.eclipse.org/indigo/index.jsp?topic=%2Forg.eclipse.platform.doc.isv%2Freference%2Fmisc%2Fruntime-options.html
or is there any known problems with that ?
/max
http://about.me/maxandersen
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