That is correct, not only do I want to, I need to. Thank you for your explanation of the EPEL policy. On January 8, 2016 5:43:55 PM EST, John R Pierce <pierce@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >On 1/8/2016 2:21 PM, H wrote: >> That was not helpful - I explained that I had to run this version. > >you WANT to run something completely unsupported from about 10 years >ago >which apparently requires software thats known to be insecure and buggy > >as all heck. its 2015, not 2005, 10 years is an eternity in the >computer industry. > >whatever this 10 year old application is you're trying to get running, >it needs to be dragged into a present day state of support. if this >requires reimplementing the clientside applet entirely, so be it. Do >note, Java applets running in web browsers are an almost entirely >deprecated technology as there's been a non-stop stream of security >problems with the whole java applet concept and implementation. >J2SE >1.4, a version that was new in 2002, was desupported in 2008. > >re; EPEL, as I understand, EPEL drops old versions like a rock the >minute they are desupported. > > >-- >john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz > >_______________________________________________ >CentOS mailing list >CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx >https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos