On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 12:34:54PM +0200, Guus Snijders via arch-general wrote: > Op ma 17 sep. 2018 12:04 schreef Olli <o...@suruatoel.xyz>: > > > On 17.09.18 09:31, Peter Nabbefeld wrote: > > > There has ever been an EOL for older JDKs. But sometimes You're bound > > > to a specific JDK version in Your working environment, so IMO always > > > replacing is a bad strategy. The problem is, in larger companies it > > > sometimes takes some weeks or even months until some software is > > > allowed to be upgraded. And I'd at least want to check which features > > > are available in which JDK - or which bugs are present. > > > > Well, tell the OpenJDK/Oracle people, they are the ones who came up with > > this release cycle. It has nothing to do with Arch Linux. > > > > Actually, it's just a user question on how to handle multiple pkg versions. > And that is Arch(user) specific ;). > > One option would be to use custom pkg's, another (somewhat easy) method > would be to create a virtual machine for every java version.
Isn't that exactly what archlinux-java is for? The way I see it the original question was related to Arch's replacement of openjdk-9 with openjdk-10. > In the VM case, add some shared storage and have fun. Just remember to > freeze at least the java pkg in those vm's... > > > Mvg, Guus Snijders
