Re: Release Plans

[Michael D. Godfrey]

On 04/22/2013 10:02 PM, Mike Miller wrote:
> For the Java experts: Octave currently compiles in the JAVA_HOME path
> at build time. This means a user of a binary Octave package has to
> have the same version of Java installed in the same directory as the
> maintainer who built it, right? Is it possible to compile against the
> JNI and load any JRE at run time from JAVA_HOME and test it for
> features? In other words, would it be possible to build Octave with
> JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/java-1.6.0 and run the resulting Octave binary on
> another system with JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk-amd64?
This fixed dependence will surely cause trouble.  For various reasons 
the version
of Java may be updated, and then the Octave interface breaks.  It will be
much better to implement the JNI interface and test for the version of Java
at runtime.  Will this work fairly reliably?

Michael