[arch-general] Java 7 is now in [community-testing] and needs testing.

[Thomas Dziedzic]

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 2:45 AM, KESHAV P.R. <skodabenz at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 07:47, Thomas Dziedzic <gostrc at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Jan Steffens <jan.steffens at gmail.com
> >wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 11:41 PM, Thomas Dziedzic <gostrc at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> > The only program that doesn't work with Java 7 afaik is minecraft, the
> >> > specific problem can be tracked here:
> >> >
> >>
> http://getsatisfaction.com/mojang/topics/minecraft_doesnt_work_with_java_7
> >> > Hopefully we can have enough users complaining that the devs will take
> >> > notice.
> >>
> >> Replacing the 32-bit libraries with their 64-bit copies, and running
> >> minecraft with LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/opt/java/jre/lib/amd64"
> >> makes it work properly here.
> >>
> >
> > Awesome! I'm now fully on java 7 :)
> >
> > I would like to hear about anyone else's experience also which will give
> me
> > some more feedback.
> >
> > Cheers!
> >
>
> Sorry if this has been mentioned before, but is this about the binary
> jre/jdk releases or the open source openjdk. I currently have openjdk6
> (and icedtea-web) installed in my system (x86_64) but did not find an
> equivalent package for Java 7. Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards.
>
> Keshav
>

These are the binary jre/jdk releases.