On Thursday 14 April 2005 6:31 am, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
I'm no license nazi - the problem is just that, which Java do you install? Sun? IBM? Does a free "JRE" include all of the components that OO expects? Do I need a JRE, a JVM, or a JDK? It is a whole OS, if one is to believe the "virtual machine" terminology they use, and I object to having to maintain an entire OS for one or two applications. Choosing, installing, and maintaining a Java distribution to support a single app is a bit like installing Microsoft Office Professional to edit a one-page text file, if there were multiple versions of Office to choose from.
Its no different than having to "install/maintain" .Net. I don't see the difficulty here, all the distro's have java available. Its not like you have to go to Sun and download and install it yourself, like windows.
Besides Java is optional, you don't have to enable the scripting features.
You should prolly go and download OO.o 2.0.
-Bill