[arch-general] How to have multiple JDKs parallel?

[Luke English]

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 <olli at 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