reducing size of bundled jre

[Hendrik Schreiber]

On 07.01.2013, at 13:40, Kustaa Nyholm wrote:

> I've not tried this myself as I've postponed bundling until
> we get proper Retina support,

I have tried 1.7.0_10 and umlauts in filenames still don't seem to be supported (is that fixed in update 12?), Retina is missing, full screen is buggy (according to Sergey will be fixed soon!), but probably worst of all - and I didn't realize that until now - OS X 10.6 is not supported.

Meaning:

~1/3 of all Mac users can't use it.

http://www.macrumors.com/2013/01/04/os-x-10-8-mountain-lion-tops-lion-as-most-popular-mac-operating-system/

So I guess at this point, one is unfortunately still well advised to wait a little before shipping anything with Java7.

The good news is though:

Besides that other problem with the FileManager class (http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/macosx-port-dev/2013-January/005261.html) I didn't encounter any serious problems when starting my app on Java7. And that's pretty cool. not quite Java6 quality, but we're definitely getting there.

-hendrik