[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #53510] [octave forge] (io) wrong java check

[Philip Nienhuis]

Follow-up Comment #6, bug #53510 (project octave):

@Mike(comment #4):
You mean a minimum required Java version for the io package?

In the io package there's only a check on availability of a Java JRE. Version
is retrieved but not invoked anywhere.
In the io package several Java dependent "interfaces" (~dependencies) have
been implemented. I'd need to check each of them to find out a minimum Java
version. But then again, each of those 'interfaces' comes in several versions
each with a separate minimum Java version.

So in the end I think I just don't bother.
In my own experience I found that those "interfaces" are fairly robust as
regards Java version; if problems arise I expect it to be due to too new a
Java version rather than too old.

Most people I get reports from have a fairly recent or the newest io package
version; few of them seem to have bothered to install Java and one of the
Java-based interfaces at all and rely on the native Octave (OCT) interface.

All of this probably doesn't answer your question directly, but I think / hope
it'll be clear enough for you to make a decision.


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