Found OpenJDK 6 windows build at www.openscg.com/se/

[Frans Thamura]

+1 i agree, we need openjdk to create installer. or the dispute what is
going on in OpenJDK will raise again,

F


On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 8:54 PM, Fernando Cassia <fcassia at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 7:03 AM, Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On 11/03/2010 09:17 AM, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> >> On Tue, 2010-11-02 at 21:49 -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> >>> On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Dr Andrew John Hughes
> >>> <gnu_andrew at member.fsf.org> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Our Free plugin and Web Start implementation have now been split out
> >>>> into the icedtea-web project which should see its first independent
> >>>> release soon.  We'd certainly be interested in seeing this ported to
> >>>> other platforms.
> >>>
> >>> Why not make it part of OpenJDK, so the user only has to install
> >>> openJDK to get a fully functional java installation ? (both JRE and
> >>> browser plug-in and Java Web Start) ??.
> >>
> >> Having independent parts in independent repositories does help with
> >> parallel development sometimes. It isn't much different from having
> >> separate hg trees in a forest. Of course if you want to provide a full
> >> free java implementation you have to combine them for your users.
> >> Everybody is free to do that when they create a distribution, and that
> >> is what the GNU/Linux distos do for their icedtea/openjdk packages.
> >
> > That's right.
> >
> > I'm not at all convinced that there is any benefit in having Java
> > install in one enormous lump.  If I had my way the installation would
> > be much more fine-grained, and with the development of Project Jigsaw
> > it seems clear that this is the way things are headed.
>
> I disagree strongly. You´re thinking as a developer. I´m thinking as
> an end-user.
>
> In the windows world, people are told to "download and install Java"
> (the JRE) and it´s a single package, a single process.
>
> Likewise, in the Linux world, I´d expect a
>
> apt-get install openjdk
>
> To produce a full, working installation of Java, just as in Windows,
> (JRE, web browser plug-in, and Java WebStart).
>
> FC
>