OpenJDK and Android Studio

[Andrew Hughes]

----- Original Message -----
> Did they ever say what exactly those problems are?
> 
> Would be nice to have at least a bug report from them rather than just
> scaring messages.
> 
> I think this is probably a good reason to use a different IDE though.
> 
> Mario
> Il giorno 15/giu/2013 08:10, "Frans Thamura" <frans at meruvian.org> ha
> scritto:
> 
> > An interesting news in I/O is Android Studio, run on JetBrain's platform.
> >
> > I try to run in Ubuntu, and got this message. and will jetbrain lead
> > the graphics in OpenJDK backed by Google ?
> >
> >
> > OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.12.3)
> > (6b27-1.12.3-0ubuntu1~12.04.1)
> > OpenJDK Server VM (build 20.0-b12, mixed mode)
> > WARNING: You are launching the IDE using OpenJDK Java runtime.
> >
> >          ITS KNOWN TO HAVE PERFORMANCE AND GRAPHICS ISSUES!
> >          SWITCH TO THE ORACLE(SUN) JDK BEFORE REPORTING PROBLEMS!
> >
> > NOTE:    If you have both Oracle (Sun) JDK and OpenJDK installed
> >          please validate either STUDIO_JDK, JDK_HOME, or JAVA_HOME
> > environment variable points to valid Oracle (Sun) JDK installation.
> >          See http://ow.ly/6TuKQ for more info on switching default JDK.
> >
> > Press Enter to continue.
> >
> 

We've never had any bug reports relating to this that I'm aware of.

I strongly dislike warnings like this that scare people into using proprietary
products without any detailed information and which are prone to rot over time.
-- 
Andrew :)

Free Java Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com)

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