OpenJDK and Android Studio

[Andrew Hughes]

----- Original Message -----
> On 07/15/2013 06:49 PM, Andrew Hughes wrote:
> > ----- 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.
> >
> I think this warning is obsolete. I'm using Idea 12 CE with openjdk6 for
> some months without major problems (minor graphical glitches sometimes).
> To disable pause after the warning this line in idea.sh (line#100 in my
> version) should be commented out:
> 
>      read IGNORE
> 
> 
> --
> Regards,
> Alex Kasko
> 

That's good to hear.  It's also exactly why these type of warnings are a bad
idea; they pertain to specific versions without making the user aware of that.
-- 
Andrew :)

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

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