Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (139 mails)

[Bernhard Walle <bwalle@xxxxxxx>]

* Adrian Schröter <adrian@xxxxxxx> [2008-03-02 08:18]:
> In general all java version should work for almost all java
> packages. Therefore it is better to use java-devel .

In an ideal world or in reality? Do you have a statistics about that
statement? Especially for desktop applications that make use of Swing.

E.g. http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-178068.html

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| 2) Forget IcedTea, disable Selinux, install Sun's java, and use
| standard jarfiles to install the applications you require. I have not
| tested this approach on Fedora 8, but it worked fine for jEdit and
| Squirrel SQL on Fedora 7. If you require a proprietary JDBC driver to
| connect to a database, how likely is it to have been tested against
| IcedTea?
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Or are you talking *only* abuild building, not running?

> > > Better use java-devel everywhere and tell us, which java version by
> > > default should be selected dependening on the architecture.
> >
> > But that has to be provided by the packages themselves, not (only) by
> > OBS tricks.
>
> A java package should in general work with all java versions, otherwise we 
> can 
> never upgrade a java or switch to some other java. This is esp. important 
> when it comes to other architectures, Sun Java does not exist for all. So an 
> explicit requirement to Sun java would mean that your java package needs to 
> get disabled on these architectures.

Of course -- but I guess IBM Java 1.5 on POWER/Seriesz and BEA Java on
IA64 is fully or nearly (99.9 %) compatible with Sun Java 1.5, but Sun
Java 1.4 is not to 1.5, of course, -- so versioning is important while
the vendor is not necessarily important.



        Bernhard
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