Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
= Proposed System Wide Change: Legacy implementations of the Java platform
in Fedora =
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/LegacyJDKsInFedora
Change owner(s): Jiri Vanek <jvanek@redhat.com>
IMHO, this is not implementable for a simple practical reason: All the JARs
we ship are built from source with our default JDK. They will in general NOT
work on any JRE that's older than the default JDK. (A JRE/JDK that's NEWER
than the default JDK can work though, e.g., the java-1.8.0-openjdk packages
in Fedora 19 and 20. But we were already providing those.)
Kevin Kofler
I'd say this proposal is very similar to my proposal[1] for
libraries: the legacy JDKs can be useful for the user when facing
with non-Fedora development. IMHO, it is fine, and even great, that
no Fedora JARs will depend on legacy JDK. However, if there are JAR
files which are useful for a developer, they can have a -legacy
version too!