Java JDK as a dependency...
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| JaseP Mar 08, 2014 3:06 PM EDT |
Having Java JDK as a dependency is going to be a non-starter for a lot of people (including me). I'd love my daughter to be able to play with this,... but "it ain't happenin'," with Oracle's Java having to be installed... |
| Jeff91 Mar 09, 2014 12:33 AM EDT |
Hope you boycott android as well if you are this anti-Java. ~Jeff |
| frankiej Mar 09, 2014 12:38 AM EDT |
The requirements simply specify a JDK is required, it doesn't say Oracle's specific implementation is required. Granted, the installation instructions detail how to download directly from Oracle, but I would assume Alice would run fine with a distro compiled OpenJDK. Or is the concern that Java itself is required? |
| JaseP Mar 09, 2014 12:17 PM EDT |
The concern is Oracle's Java... (& Android (Davlik) =/= Java, by the way...)... I've seen it where Oracle's version was required & the given application would not run on substitutes... |
| tuxchick Mar 09, 2014 2:26 PM EDT |
Oracle's Java is icky and stupid. I'm not a fan of any Java apps because they're ugly and slow. |
| JaseP Mar 09, 2014 2:30 PM EDT |
Oracle itself is icky and stupid... |
| frankiej Mar 09, 2014 4:15 PM EDT |
Alice seems to run just fine without Oracle's Java installation. I was curious so I tried it out on Fedora 20 (64-bit) with OpenJDK. Everything seems to be running fine. It does seem to be an intriguing concept and I amused myself by having a penguin move around the screen saying "Slackware Rules!" :) I tend to agree that Java client apps tend to look ugly. This one is actually better than most I have seen, but I haven't had to deal with very many client apps besides Eclipse. |
| JaseP Mar 09, 2014 4:47 PM EDT |
Maybe I'll give it a try with OpenJDK on Kubuntu 12.04... |
| mbaehrlxer Mar 09, 2014 9:42 PM EDT |
the difference between openjdk and sun/oracle's release of java was a problem up until java 6. since version 7, openjdk is the official reference implementation for java: https://blogs.oracle.com/henrik/entry/moving_to_openjdk_as_t... https://jdk7.java.net/java-se-7-ri/ so just use the java 7 from your distribution and you'll be fine. greetings, eMBee. |
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