Java and openjdk
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Fri Aug 29 06:01:08 UTC 2008
Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>
>>>
>>>> That's a matter of opinion. It may matter to you why your 3rd party
>>>> application doesn't run. It matters to me whether it runs or not.
>>>
>>> It is not a matter of opinion. You claimed that if Fedora shipped
>>> official Java, then the problems would disappear for third party
>>> applications.
>>
>> I don't think that's exactly what I said.
>
> Oh, sure. Feel free to look up the archives.
Different conversation, I guess. Was that back when fedora was shipping
something that not only wasn't a version that would run 3rd party apps
but it also wouldn't pass any conformance tests? And you still defended
the product?
>> OpenNMS would be a good test.
>
> .. which works fine.
>
> http://yum.opennms.org/
> http://blogs.opennms.org/?p=223
Errr, that blog says it builds... Is it your/fedora's policy that if
something builds you should ship it? The fedora versions that do work
work because they require this:
http://yum.opennms.org/unstable/common/jdk/i386/jdk-1_5_0_15-linux-i586.rpm
> Run the latest release and if you find a actual problem, file a bug
> report. Theoretical discussions are just wasting time.
Repeating other people's mistakes is what wastes time. Here's what one
of their developers said more recently:
http://n2.nabble.com/Broken-Startup-on-Fedora-9-td640408.html#a640628
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Les Mikesell
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