Re: java16 on El Capitan
Alexander Hansen <[email protected]>
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> On Oct 3, 2015, at 11:28, Jack Howarth <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 2:18 PM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > If I'm reading fink-virtual-packages correctly, 1.6 was the last version > provided by Apple, and 1.7+ must be gotten from Oracle. Is that correct? Correct. > When Martin's fix gets released, would best practices be to keep > pointing packages to system-java16 since its a system tool, or would it > be preferred to point to a newer java if the package allows it > (virtuoso, which started this thread, has the option to use java17)? > Java16 is really old. > > > There are a few packages like rstudio-desktop/server whose builds still demand the framework java. Unfortunately, I suspect upstream won't bother to fix that until java16 actually disappears in 10.12. > > Hanspeter > Most Java packages are happy to use the newest Java on the system. The best practice is to avoid a versioned system-java dependency at all, and failing that to use the newest java major version that the package supports. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [email protected] List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel