OpenJDK instead of Oracle's Java in the docs
Brandon Invergo <[email protected]> Fri, 31 Aug 2012 21:46:21 +0200
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.cad.electric.general |
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Hi, In the Electric documentation[1], the user is advised that Oracle's Java 1.6 is required to run the program. However, Oracle's Java implementation is proprietary software. Meanwhile, OpenJDK is a free implementation that is mature and seems to be fully capable of running the program (at least based on my rudimentary testing). I think that, since Electric is a GNU program, it would be advisable to change to recommending OpenJDK as the requirement in the manual. Cheers, Brandon Invergo [1] http://www.staticfreesoft.com/jmanual/mchap01-03.html