Re: [Swingosc-devel] Sun Java removed from Ubuntu repos: are any open JREs workable?

[Sciss <co...@sc...>]

OpenJDK should be the preferred choice, i guess... i have heard there are no problems, and it is very very close to sun, so all the GUI stuff should be perfectly compatible.

once more, thanks for your work, dan!

i haven't followed the SC 3.4 stuff recently. is it out now? should we define a version of SwingOSC that is officially the accompaniment?

best, -sciss-


Am 19.06.2010 um 17:26 schrieb Dan S:

> Hi -
> 
> I'm looking at packaging SwingOSC for recent Ubuntu (lucid). In
> previous versions we used Sun's Java ("sun-java6-bin" package), but
> Sun Java is officially not going to be made available through Ubuntu
> repositories from now onwards.
> 
> Of course it's still possible to install Sun Java on ubuntu (e.g. by
> downloading it from the Sun website), but for someone trying to create
> a debian package which will auto-install, this creates quite a
> headache.
> 
> So my question is: are any of the open Java implementations currently
> "good enough" to build+run SwingOSC? If so, then the packaging can be
> very straightforward. I can't remember what the problems were in the
> past, missing features? Unexpected behaviour?
> 
> Thanks
> Dan
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