Re: The OpenJDK6 port should remove the WEB option to avoid confusion

[Brian Gardner <brian_(_at_)_experts-exchange_(_dot_)_com>]

Let's remove the option for now.  Perhaps we can port the icedtea plugin 
and webstart at a later date and re-introduce it.

Brian

Maho NAKATA wrote:
> Hello Brian,
>
> What do you think?
>
> From: Kurt Miller <lists_(_at_)_intricatesoftware_(_dot_)_com>
> Subject: Re: OpenJDK6 and NetBeans: Who can use non-English fonts on NetBeans?
> Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:03:14 -0500
>
>   
> > OpenJDK (6 or 7) doesn't yet come with a plugin or webstart. It is not
> > clear if Sun will ever release them under GPL. The last semi-offical
> > statement is here:
> >
> > http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/discuss/2008-September/001283.html
> >
> > The OpenJDK6 port should remove the WEB option to avoid confusion.
> >
> > I believe that the lack of the plugin will prevent OpenJDK6 from
> > building OpenOffice. :( Perhaps the approach Fedora took might work
> > for a plugin replacement. See 16.3 for a description:
> >
> > http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f9/en_US/sn-Java.html
> >
> > It mentions the lack of support for LiveConnect. If I'm not mistaken
> > that is need for the plugin to work in Firefox (memory rusty on this
> > one). However it may be good enough to allow OpenJDK6 to build
> > OpenOffice.
> >     
>
> -- Nakata Maho http://accc.riken.jp/maho/ , http://ja.openoffice.org/
>    Nakata Maho's PGP public keys: http://accc.riken.jp/maho/maho.pgp.txt
>   
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