Updating the java.version property reported by IcedTea

[Andrew John Hughes]

2009/12/2 Deepak Bhole <dbhole at redhat.com>:
> * Mark Wielaard <mark at klomp.org> [2009-12-02 08:40]:
>> Hi Andrew,
>>
>> On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 09:27 +0000, Andrew Haley wrote:
>> > Mark Wielaard wrote:
>> > > If we have to have a "real" update number it would be nice to base it on
>> > > the actual icedtea version number.
>> >
>> > I think the best chance of this working properly is if we print something
>> > that is as close as possible to that of the proprietary JDK.
>>
>> Yes, of course, that is what my proposal does. But instead of hardcoding
>> an arbitrary number (_16) it generates it from the actual icedtea
>> package version (_17) so it actually has meaning as update version
>> number.
>>
>
> Agreed! Should I go ahead and make the change then (to dynamically set
> it based on package version)? Any objections?
>
> Deepak
>

Sounds ok to me.  I'd also suggest reporting the bug in this applet.
-- 
Andrew :-)

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