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On Mon, 8 Aug 2016 16:33:15 +1200 |
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Kent Fredric <kentnl@g.o> wrote: |
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> > so it is paused for a licensed |
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> > download, as necessary, is not a show stopper |
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> The problem is that download requires a Browser with JavaScript |
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> support, because it requires JavaScript to set a cookie, and that |
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> cookie activates the download working. |
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> Which means if your installer is for instance, Curses based, you're |
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> pretty much out-of-luck. |
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> "Please open browser at this point, but we don't have a working |
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> desktop environment yet to do this" is a bit of a hard problem. |
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> "You need 2 computers to install this" is also a bit of a problem. |
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> So installing Java would have to be done /after/ the install. |
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Scratch this. |
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Just use iced-tea JDK by default. People who want oracle can do the |
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extra work. |