Fedora and JPackage proprietary JDK shims

[Colin Walters]

On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  I can say that OpenNMS won't currently work with a 1.6 version because it's
> developers have said so.

So what you're really saying is Fedora doesn't support Java < 6 very
well.  I don't think anyone would disagree, but you have to understand
it's not a very interesting problem; these projects should really be
working to update for 6, regardless of Fedora or OpenJDK - Java 5 is
in pure maintenance mode now.

I'm sure there's a fair amount of software out there that doesn't work
on Java 6, but it's not "most" by a long shot.

> > It's been well known for years how to install the proprietary
> > JDK;
> >
>
>  Well known by?

Really...it's in a lot of FAQs, etc.

>  That would have been just fine, but there have been long intervals where
> jpackage has not had a suitable repo (and again, I don't see any reason that
> should even have needed to change across fedora versions since java code is
> pretty much independent of anything else)

Perhaps; I've personally only used the jpackage shims on RHEL (which
is much closer to jpackage's target audience).

> and in earlier conversations here
> I thought someone said the relationship was deliberately broken with
> portions moved into fedora packages and the rest ignored.

If Fedora and JPackage were on Facebook, the relationship status would
be "It's complicated".  But we are cooperating on many levels, and I
would certainly not call it broken.

Bottom line - should Fedora ship the proprietary JDK shim?  I don't
think it's worth the user confusion over just telling people to go to
JPackage, but if someone stepped up, did the work, and submitted it
and was going to maintain/own it, it might happen.