<blockquote type="cite" style="border-left-style:solid;border-width:1px;margin-left:0px;padding-left:10px;"><span><div><div><div><br>Yes, I realize that this is a difficult effort. Since we are moving to </div><div>openjdk (due to Oracle licensing change), the question here has been </div><div>which version of openjdk to use. I don't have the illusion that all </div><div>projects will support it soon (and certainly not until osgeo live 6.0), </div><div>but this is the first step :)</div></div></div></span></blockquote><div>I am afraid I missed the GeoTools meeting last night and was unable to add this topic to the Agenda.</div><div><br></div><div>I will try and include it for next time; however initial feedback on the email list indicates:</div><div>- general support for the idea of testing on more platforms</div><div>- automatic windows testing as a bigger issue; one Ben is running a build box for</div><div>- no volunteers for hardware to test openjdk on</div><blockquote type="cite" style="border-left-style:solid;border-width:1px;margin-left:0px;padding-left:10px;"><span><div><div><div>One suggestion I have made in the past is to manually install a single </div><div>instance of sun-java on the disk and ask all projects to use this </div><div>version instead of bundling their own jre.</div></div></div></span></blockquote><div>If that version has ImageIO-Ext / GDAL (symbolic links in the jre/bin directory should work) then uDig would be able to use it out of the box; and not ship with its own.</div><div><br></div><div>Indeed rather than messing with environmental variables; a symbolic link "ire" can be added to the "udig" application directory pointing to the location of the sun JRE.</div><blockquote type="cite" style="border-left-style:solid;border-width:1px;margin-left:0px;padding-left:10px;"><span><div><div><div>I agree that a code sprint would be a great opportunity to test this.</div></div></div></span></blockquote><div>Cheers,</div><div>Jody </div><div><br>
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