So will the proposed behavior be I upgrade Maven, I don’t have JAVA_HOME set manually and Maven will error out?
> On Apr 15, 2016, at 1:34 PM, Michael Osipov <micha...@apache.org> wrote: > > Hi folks, > > we all know that people once in a while complain that my JAVA_HOME is not > properly discovered on $PLATFORM, etc. Surprisingly, we require JAVA_HOME to > be set in the installation documentation, yet we discover it anyway. This is > a contradiction. Moreover, our discovery mechanism can never be complete and > won't. It bloats. > > In MNG-6003 [1], I propose to throw away all of this code and solely rely on > the dev's input. If he/she it not able to set it properly, he/she shouldn't > write code at all. Most of the time, on Unix/Linux, this isn't even necessary > because a JDK is installed by default. > > I have created a feature branch [1] for this. If no one objects, I will merge > this into master. > > The change have been tested with, without JAVA_HOME and invalid JAVA_HOME on > > * Windows 10 > * Cygwin (Git Bash) > * Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (from /home as well as /opt and with symlinks from > /usr/local/bin) > * FreeBSD 10.2-RELEASE (from /home as well as from /usr/local and with > symlinks from /usr/local/bin) > > Please have a look especially on your platform. > > Michael > > [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-6003 > [2] > https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=maven.git;a=commitdiff;h=196234a95f7d5ade0b0b905308c2083e856cd121 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > Thanks, Jason ---------------------------------------------------------- Jason van Zyl Founder, Takari and Apache Maven http://twitter.com/jvanzyl http://twitter.com/takari_io --------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org
