FS#13330 - Multiple java environments

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by kkl2401 (kkl2401) - Tuesday, 17 February 2009, 01:04 GMT
Last edited by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Monday, 23 February 2009, 08:16 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version None
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description: Recent talk about java packages, dependencies and environment compatibilities made me once again think about an idea I first tried to describe some time ago on arch-general (as far as I remember). Would it be possible not to have different java environments conflict with each other and instead provide users with a mechanism of switching their preferred environment on the fly? I think it might not be that hard (haven't tried it though) because it might only involve dealing with $PATH and $JAVA_HOME variables.

I know that some other distributions have this possibility, for example Suse: http://en.opensuse.org/Java/setDefaultJava (they seem to solve this somehow via symlinks).

Do the devs have time to check this out and find a way to do this? If openjdk6 from extra and jdk from community could be installed together, it would probably save a lot of trouble for some people. Also there might be someone then to create a package for example for IBM's Java (sometimes it's useful to try things under different JREs and reinstalling them all the time isn't much fun).
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Closed by  Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Monday, 23 February 2009, 08:16 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Monday, 23 February 2009, 08:16 GMT
We officially support only one Java environment. That it openjdk. Though it could be done to add support for different Java setups this would break our KISS rules. So this won't happen in ArchLinux.

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