OpenJDK installers for Win/Mac? (original) (raw)

Sven Reimers sven.reimers at gmail.com
Tue Jun 26 10:51:48 UTC 2018

Hi,

I remembered asking that question a while back on twitter... read the answer from @DonaldOJDK

https://twitter.com/DonaldOJDK/status/976581576497614849?s=09

-Sven

Remi Forax <forax at univ-mlv.fr> schrieb am Di., 26. Juni 2018, 10:47:

----- Mail original ----- > De: "Lennart Börjeson" <lenborje at gmail.com> > À: "jdk-dev" <jdk-dev at openjdk.java.net> > Envoyé: Mardi 26 Juin 2018 09:02:16 > Objet: OpenJDK installers for Win/Mac?

> The early-access page for jdk 11 (http://jdk.java.net/11/ > <http://jdk.java.net/11/>) links to installers for Mac and Windows for the > Oracle JDK build, but the OpenJDK builds are plain archives only. > > The installers provide additional platform-specific integration (e.g. the > /usr/libexec/javahome utility on Mac, and various other integration tools on > both platforms). > > The OpenJDK build would surely benefit from this additional integration, too. i hope not, it will make CI configurations, image building scripts, etc less regular, so more complex than they should be. > > Is this a temporary oversight or intentional? Will OpenJDK get installers? > > /Lennart Remi

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