Re: [Vicaya-user] RFC - distributing the JRE

[Hugo G. <hga...@gm...>]

Hello Alex,

On 4/28/06, Alexander E Genaud <lx...@po...> wrote:
> I would like your thoughts on the following consideration:
>
> I would like to distribute Vicaya on CDROM with various JRE
> installation packages. Vicaya may run from the CDROM, but the JRE will
> not run from the CDROM. Vicaya will attempt to run with the assumption
> that a JRE is already installed on the computer.
>
> If a JRE has not already been installed, the Vicaya will gracefully
> fail. The user may then locate the appropriate JRE on the CDROM and
> use the vendor provided JRE installation. Alternatively they may
> obtain the latest JRE from the web. These steps can be documented
> fairly easily.

As long as the licenses allow us to distribute them in this way I like
this approach, although it may be eaiser to include only the JRE from
one vendor to avoid possible confusion among users not very
computer-savvy.

Although for those users that can't install anything on their
computers for any reason what about providing them also with a
completely-from-CD-ROM version?


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Hugo