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Feedback / kind of brain storming
« on: March 24, 2005, 10:24:41 am »Quote from: "raft"
it almost lost its meaning to get karga back to java 1.4.x since sun updated getjava page to 1.5. to tell the truth i am quite unhappy with download size of java5. maybe its time for sun to make partial-java versions with desired packages only. afterall it is not the jvm but all that huge library packages that make java5 so download unfriendlyIt's not so much about what to download but what you already have IMHO. People are still using 1.4.x a lot. May it be because they can't update or because they won't for whatever reason. And there is still no Java5 for Mac, or is there?
The problem with a partial download/distribution of Java is, that SUN's license doesn't permit that. That's making the distribution of the JRE together with your application unnecessary difficult. For Paradroidz, i made a version that includes the 1.4.2 JRE. With CAB-compression, i'm down to 15MB but it doesn't get any smaller than this, because you are not allowed to remove unneeded things from the JRE...annoying...