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On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 16:59:20 +0200 |
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Michael Schreckenbauer <grimlog@×××.de> wrote: |
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> > (As an aside I had thought idedtea replaced the need for oracle/sun |
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> > 's jdk. I do have installed sun/oracle 's java-sdk-docs.) |
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> That's true. You can unmerge the sun-jdk and emerge icedtea instead. |
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> In my experience, icedtea did not work for everything. That might |
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> have changed, but I still use the oracle jdk. |
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That's been my experience too. |
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The Java platform defines many sub-packages for all sorts of |
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APIs. Turns out that some of them are proprietary or restricted in |
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interesting ways. Sometimes it's not even the entire package, just a |
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part of it. |
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The upshot is that OpenJDK does not contain the is code and every now |
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and then you try run something with OpenJDK that's in one of these |
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packages. |
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Supremely annoying. The last case we had is a Java app that prints to |
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pdf files. This function only works in sun-jdk due to some svg-to-pdf |
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converter |
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Alan McKinnnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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