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</style><i><b>Kevin Kofler</b></i> wrote on Wed, 25 Feb 2015 01:31:59
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<pre wrap="">Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
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<pre wrap="">= Proposed System Wide Change: Legacy implementations of the Java platform
in Fedora =
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/LegacyJDKsInFedora">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/LegacyJDKsInFedora</a>
Change owner(s): Jiri Vanek <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:jvanek@redhat.com"><jvanek@redhat.com></a>
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IMHO, this is not implementable for a simple practical reason: All the JARs
we ship are built from source with our default JDK. They will in general NOT
work on any JRE that's older than the default JDK. (A JRE/JDK that's NEWER
than the default JDK can work though, e.g., the java-1.8.0-openjdk packages
in Fedora 19 and 20. But we were already providing those.)
Kevin Kofler
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I'd say this proposal is very similar to my proposal[1] for
libraries: the legacy JDKs can be useful for the user when facing
with non-Fedora development. IMHO, it is fine, and even great, that
no Fedora JARs will depend on legacy JDK. However, if there are JAR
files which are useful for a developer, they can have a -legacy
version too!<br>
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Regards,<br>
Hedayat<br>
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[1] "Proposal to (formally/easily) allowing multiple versions of the
same library installable" thread<br>
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