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Danno
Haha. Just kidding.
I just wanted to zing all the summer students and overly-sensitive
posters that have been coming into comp.lang.java.programmer as of
late.
I did have a question that you can answer at your leisure. I am
running JDK 6.0 Beta and all is rocking. I love it. There are times
though where I have to do things that require JDK 5.0, like build a
huge open source project that requires 5.0 without doing a find and
replace in every ant script that it has a <javac> tag without a source
attribute. The problem is that java.sun.com only offers java
installers for Windows that assimilate fully into the OS, and I don't
want to install 5.0 fully like that. All I wan't is the java binaries
just so I can do a simple build. Whatever happened to the zip files
that you can open and automatically have java.
I was thinking of going to another Windows machine with 5.0 installed
and copying the java (5.0) directory over to my machine and make
reference to that java whenever I need 5.0. I don't know if anyone has
experience with that or not, or if it works. I do also have cygwin,
and maybe I can install 5.0 on that with 6.0 is installed in my windows
OS.
Anyways, just thought I'd ping here to see if anyone has a solution.
The open source project in question, in case you are wondering is
netbeans.
I just wanted to zing all the summer students and overly-sensitive
posters that have been coming into comp.lang.java.programmer as of
late.
I did have a question that you can answer at your leisure. I am
running JDK 6.0 Beta and all is rocking. I love it. There are times
though where I have to do things that require JDK 5.0, like build a
huge open source project that requires 5.0 without doing a find and
replace in every ant script that it has a <javac> tag without a source
attribute. The problem is that java.sun.com only offers java
installers for Windows that assimilate fully into the OS, and I don't
want to install 5.0 fully like that. All I wan't is the java binaries
just so I can do a simple build. Whatever happened to the zip files
that you can open and automatically have java.
I was thinking of going to another Windows machine with 5.0 installed
and copying the java (5.0) directory over to my machine and make
reference to that java whenever I need 5.0. I don't know if anyone has
experience with that or not, or if it works. I do also have cygwin,
and maybe I can install 5.0 on that with 6.0 is installed in my windows
OS.
Anyways, just thought I'd ping here to see if anyone has a solution.
The open source project in question, in case you are wondering is
netbeans.