[Live-demo] Can we remove OpenJDK from OSGeo-Live?

[Alex Mandel]

On 08/09/2011 02:24 PM, Even Rouault wrote:
> Le mardi 09 août 2011 22:59:32, Cameron Shorter a écrit :
>> OSGeo-LIve project contacts,
>>
>> We are trying to find space on OSGeoLive, and expect that we can remove
>> OpenJDK, the free java implementation, as most applications seem to be
>> using the Sun JRE instead.
>>
>> So from the java projects:
>> * Will you application be able to run without OpenJDK? (It seems that
>> rasdaman is the only application drawing it in)
>>
>> * Will your application run with only Sun's JRE or do you require JDK as
>> well?
> 
> I just wanted to share my surprise when reading that. I actually re-read twice 
> to be sure I didn't understand it the wrong way...
> 
> Why not the other way round, that would be more consistant with the free 
> software philosophy, wouldn't it ? I would hope that the software included 
> could (ideally) work equally fine with both implementations (they share most of 
> their source code). If not, making them work with the free implementation 
> would be an interesting aim ;-)
> 
> Or by OpenJDK, do you mean the full JDK from OpenJDK (openjdk-6-jdk), instead 
> of the JRE from OpenJDK (openjdk-6-jre) ?
> 
> 2 cents from an outsider...
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Even

You read correctly. Here's the reason, we are super tight on space this
version and some of the Java projects only work on Sun Java right now.
So will we've been bugging them to make OpenJDK compatible it simply
isn't reality. We do mean both jdk and jre since sun java is on there
and set as the default java (I think).

Yes on principal we want projects to go 100% open, maybe some open java
champions can help push that for version 5.5 in 6 months.

Thanks,
Alex