Re: [eclipse-pmc] Java 7 on Mac OS X

[John Arthorne <John_Arthorne@xxxxxxxxxx>]

eclipse-pmc-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 03/20/2012 03:17:21
PM:

> > The immediate issue for Eclipse, though, is that the means by
which 
> > it finds the JDK right now will not work with Oracle's JDK 7,
and it
> > will also need the ability to find a bundled JRE. We need to
make 
> > some changes to support it. This will be true for RCP-based apps
and
> > Eclipse itself.
> > 
> 
> ... we make these changes. You know, it's odd. We've known that 
> there were going to be changes required here for a while, and I 
> actually *thought* we had already made them. Maybe it was just for
> launching apps from within Eclipse and not for the launcher itself.
> Bogdan/Michael, do you remember anything like that, or am I just smoking...?

We made changes in the launcher to support Oracle
Java 7 in general, but that was only Windows and Linux because Oracle didn't
provide Java 7 on Mac. We also already support bundled JRE's on non-Mac
platforms.  It's quite likely that launcher logic will need to be
different for Mac though. This part definitely sounds like a valid enhancement
for our launcher.

John