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Re: [opensuse-factory] Java packages changes for 10.3
  • From: "Gabriel ." <gabriel.sgt@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 12:34:11 -0300
  • Message-id: <1adde6890705020834q1d55e77bp7efc896b764968bd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> - java-1.4.2-sun will be dropped, versions 1.5.0, 1.6.0 (DLJ licensed) and
> gcj-compat 1.4.2 will be included. The DLJ-license is a special lincense
> that was introduced by Sun in 2006 for re-distributors of Sun Java (see
http://download.java.net/dlj/DLJ-FAQ.html).

About 1.4, it should stay.
For compatibility reason, at work we compile using jdk1.4, because for
technical reason we cannot upgrade to 1.5.
IMHO dropping 1.4 will not be a big saving.

Regards.
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