Re: [OctDev] removing java package from SVN tree

[Philip N. <pr....@hc...>]

Martin Helm wrote:
> Am 23.11.2012 21:52, schrieb Carnë Draug:
>> Hi everyone
>>
>> the java package as been moved to Octave core (see

Hmm.... surprise.

>> http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/acf0addfc610). I want to
>> remove the package from the SVN tree to prevent accidental branching
>> of its development.
>>
>> I will keep the tarball in the servers available for download and
>> install, even after the release of whatever Octave version includes
>> it.
>>
>> Carnë
>>
> Is it planned to integrate it at some point in a similar way as the java
> support is integrated into Matlab?

Apparently, exactly that has been done; Octave-Java-package's 
idiosyncrasies permitting.

That is, Matlab ships with a JRE so that Java is always guaranteed to 
work with ML. (The ML GUI was (still is?) Java-based so I can understand 
why TMW needed to do that.)

AFAICS Octave is dependent on an independently installed JDK. Moreover, 
once Octave has been built from source w/o JDK, adding in a JRE or JDK 
later on and then expecting Java to work automagically from Octave may 
be a tad optimistic.
Of course, for users invoking a binary distribution package this 
shouldn't be a problem.

Philip