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Bug 348268

Summary:	Warning for Linux users using gcj and Eclipse can be removed
Product:	Community	Reporter:	Jeff Johnston <jjohnstn>
Component:	Website	Assignee:	phoenix.ui <phoenix.ui-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	akurtakov, eclipse-bugs, wayne.beaton
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:

Description Jeff Johnston

2011-06-03 15:18:27 EDT

There is a warning at the start of the EPP page: 

http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/index-developer.php

to Linux users regarding the use of Eclipse with gcj.

This warning is no longer that relevant/important with the obsoletion of gcj and the prevalence of openJDK.

It is suggested that this warning now be removed.  At most, a warning could be listed on the Details page, but it even that isn't that necessary with information already noted in "Known Issues".

Comment 1 Denis Roy

2011-08-12 14:29:56 EDT

Anything to remove clutter.  Over to Nathan.

Comment 2 Eric Rizzo

2012-08-23 11:02:08 EDT

Question about gcj in linux distros: do existing distros automatically replace gcj as the default with OpenJDK? Sure, a new installation of linux will have OpenJDK, but what about all those existing installs that had gcj to begin with?

Comment 3 Alexander Kurtakov

2012-08-23 12:18:09 EDT

(In reply to comment #2)
> Question about gcj in linux distros: do existing distros automatically
> replace gcj as the default with OpenJDK? Sure, a new installation of linux
> will have OpenJDK, but what about all those existing installs that had gcj
> to begin with?

Well, in Fedora case OpenJDK is the default since 13 May 2008 (Fedora 9 - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JavaFAQ). Suse has it since their 11.0( released 2009) release which EOLed last year. Debian Lenny (released 2009) had it too.

See https://blogs.oracle.com/barton808/entry/open_jdk_in_debian_s for details. So I can say that existing distros has OpenJDK by default and the versions that had gcj are EOLed already (even Debian Lenny http://www.debian.org/releases/lenny/). 

I hope that this is enough proof :).

Comment 4 Denis Roy

2012-08-28 16:10:44 EDT

It seems the GCJ warning is long gone from the downloads page... Resolved/Fixed?

Comment 5 Jeff Johnston

2012-08-28 16:18:20 EDT

(In reply to comment #4)
> It seems the GCJ warning is long gone from the downloads page...
> Resolved/Fixed?

Ok with me, the reporter.

Comment 6 Denis Roy

2012-08-28 16:24:59 EDT

Thanks