[Live-demo] Which version of openjdk should be included on OSGeo-Live 6.0?

[Alex Mandel]

Putting an | as or option in a debian rules file is really easy.
Recent example
https://github.com/GeoNode/geonode-deb/commit/55f97cfd4bcf42912270e82ec346fe668cb74c06

Enjoy,
Alex


On 06/03/2012 04:24 PM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
> So here is my first impression with openjdk7:
> 
> Some packages are packaged as deb files and recommend openjdk6 since
> they are build against that default version in 12.04 (eg gvsig). Others
> require openjdk6 (eg atlastyler) and apt-get installs it in order to
> fulfill the dependencies.
> 
> So basically until all deb files involved here are built against
> openjdk7 in Launchpad, we will be getting both versions installed in the
> disk.
> 
> Basically this would require a lot of effort from packagers and I am not
> sure that the projects would like to have a version upstream that uses a
> Java version that is not the default of the OS. The golden rule in
> packaging is to try to offer users default versions of dependencies...
> 
> Angelos
> 
> On 05/29/2012 06:25 PM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am planning to do an alpha3 this weekend.
>> It would be great to have iso creation in this test too.
>>
>>
>> On 05/29/2012 09:23 AM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
>>> Frank,
>>> I've be very keen to hear your feedback after you try
>>> osgeo-live-6.0alpha3, which I understand Angelos is going to build
>>> with OpenJDK 7 (instead of OpenJDK 6).
>>>
>>> I think our biggest challenge for this 6.0 release of OSGeo-Live will
>>> be to see if we can get the Geotools based java applications working
>>> with OpenJDK 7.
>>>
>>> Angelos,
>>> Do you plan to build an alpha3 release soon?
>>>
>>> On 29/05/2012 3:17 PM, Frank Gasdorf wrote:
>>>> All right. I just tested it on the 5.5 Release and it fails, because
>>>> of missing
>>>>      javax.media.jai.JAI
>>>> class. The rendering sub-system requires the Java advanced imaging and
>>>> I guess there is no port for openjdk jet.
>>>> Because this exception is thrown from a geotools renderer class all
>>>> installations that requires geotools would fail. Could anybody confirm
>>>> my point of view?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Frank
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2012/5/29 Frank Gasdorf<fgdrf at users.sourceforge.net>:
>>>>> Brian,
>>>>>
>>>>> please note, that uDig is shipped and installed with its own JRE. To
>>>>> verify which JRE is used open the "About uDig" Dialog in the launched
>>>>> Application (Menu ->  Help ->  About uDig". In the opened Dialog you
>>>>> will find a "installation Details" Buttown left below, hit it and
>>>>> switch afterwards to the "Configuration" tab.
>>>>>
>>>>> For the uDig installation (1.2.2) you will see something like this:
>>>>>
>>>>> java.home=/usr/lib/udig/jre
>>>>> java.runtime.version=1.6.0_25-b06
>>>>>
>>>>> To test against the installed JRE please go through:
>>>>>
>>>>> * goto /usr/lib/udig with terminal/shell (cd /usr/lib/udig)
>>>>> * type "sudo mv jre jreXXX" and type the password afterwards (user)
>>>>> * start uDig again
>>>>>
>>>>> and in the same About Dialog mentioned above you will see
>>>>> java.home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk   (or something like this, but
>>>>> not the bundled JRE from /usr/lib/udig)
>>>>>
>>>>> Start testing the Walkthrough to verify everything is fine:
>>>>> http://live.osgeo.org/en/quickstart/udig_quickstart.html
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> Frank
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 2012/5/29 Brian Hamlin<maplabs at light42.com>:
>>>>>> Hi All-
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   you know that GeoTools and the Java apps are very important to
>>>>>> this disk..
>>>>>>   I personally want to get this resolved the best way it can. I
>>>>>> also am not a
>>>>>> Java dev,
>>>>>> so I am missing a lot of the details under the surface...  however
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   I just micro tested uDig on the Live build Alpha 2.. all I tried
>>>>>> was two
>>>>>> things..
>>>>>> Open a shape file, and open a TIF file.. and it worked fine !
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   openJDK-6
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   so there may be more going on, but it appears to me that we may
>>>>>> be able to
>>>>>> get
>>>>>> away with openJDK-6. Maybe 7 too..
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   best regards from Berkeley, California
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ==
>>>>>> Brian Hamlin
>>>>>> GeoCal-ish
>>>>>> OSGeo California Chapter
>>>>>> 415-717-4462 cell
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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