Re: [libreoffice-users] Java broke on LO 5.1 on Macs

The goal of the JRE is, as the name Java Runtime Environment says, that it should be sufficient to 
run Java functionality.
In all discussions I miss why LO needs more then the runtime environment...
We should work to bring LO in the boundary of of the JRE.

Rob.

On 12 feb. 2016, at 14:09, Alexander Thurgood wrote:

> Le 12/02/2016 13:36, Stephan Bergmann a écrit :
>
> > The fix for <https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94716>
> > "FILEOPEN: LibO terminates when loading Oracle's Java on OS X 10.10 and
> > 10.11," replacing the need to install Apple's Java 6 in addition to an
> > Oracle JRE or JDK with the requirement to install an Oracle JDK, not a
> > JRE.  I'm not sure we did ourselves a favour with that change...
>
> That's the one.
>
> Most people rarely download a JDK when a JRE is largely sufficient for
> almost everything they might need to launch a Java application,
> especially as the JRE updates can be configured to be automatic, whereas
> the JDK can not. A user must be aware by looking up for themselves that
> there is a newer version of the JDK available (this doens't even happen
> on Windows to my knowledge). The change made in that bug report means
> that users have to choose between either foregoing Java functionality in
> LibreOffice and receiving annoying nag messages that no Java is
> installed, or else download and install a larger JDK (in comparison to
> just the JRE) that they then have to manually update from time to time.
>
>
>
> Alex
>
>
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