On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 7:18 AM, Rahul Sundaram <metherid(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi
On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Caolán McNamara wrote:
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> Because we could probably get rid of those requires if we need to. We
> removed and converted a lot of stuff away from java since the time the
> original requires were added, though it is convenient from the
> perspective of supporting manually added extensions to know that java is
> installed. I guess we're already compromised in the sense that we now
> only know for sure that at least the headless variant is installed.
Yes, I think dropping the requires is a useful thing. A release note must
be added as a warning for users installing third party extensions that may
still rely on Java
Well when someone installs a third party extension and have no java
would libreoffice tell him to install java?
If not things will just fail without an obvious reason making our
product looks bad. So I disagree on it being a useful thing. We don't
have to save every single megabyte no matter what.
And no a release notes entry is not enough.