<Swing Dev> Request for review: Bug 100054: Make building the Nimbus look 'n' feel optional

[Kelly O'Hair]

Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
> The irony here is that yesterday I updated my laptop to Ubuntu 9.04, and
> (a) the Mercurial package does not completely install correctly

That is disturbing.

> (b) even if it did, it is version 1.1.2.something, and OpenJDK requires
>     0.9.5.

I'm pretty sure that is not true. I'm using 1.2+ on my Mac and everything works fine.
I don't think you 'have to' use 0.9.5, but you may need a different forest
extension and perhaps use the 'clone --pull' option to create repositories.
Even the jcheck extension was modified a while back and works with 1.2+.

> The point being that if people need version X of something they will
> download and use it one way or another.

That's kind of my feeling too. I recently loaded up an Ubuntu 7.10 system
(for JavaFX which uses this as their Linux build OS), and discovered that
the newest Mercurial I could get was 0.9.4, which was painful.
I got it to work, but it was frustrating that the versions get locked down
on a system, understandable for the distro to do this, but awkward for
doing development on those systems. I won't be using that system much,
but it was a bit enlightening.

-kto

> 
> -- Jon
> 
> On May 15, 2009, at 6:39 AM, Andrew Haley wrote:
> 
>> Peter Zhelezniakov wrote:
>>> Andrew Haley wrote:
>>>> We are not in a position to dictate to a user exactly which version of
>>>> JIBX will be installed on their system.  Therefore, if JIBX is now a
>>>> dependency of OpenJDK we'll have to find a way to make OpenJDK work
>>>> with whatever versions of JIBX people choose.
>>>
>>> To make it clear: JIBX is not a runtime dependency. It is used at build
>>> time only.
>>>
>>> OpenJDK does work regardless of JIBX presence.
>>
>> Sure, thanks for clarifying, but it makes no difference to the real
>> situation: we are not in a position to dictate to someone building
>> OpenJDK exactly which version of JIBX will be installed on their system.
>> The build systems used by distros aren't guaranteed to have exactly
>> Version X of JIBX.
>>
>> Andrew.
>>
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