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Bug 473573

Summary:	download page contains obsolete OS X 10.5 requirement
Product:	Community	Reporter:	Hal Perkins <hal>
Component:	Website	Assignee:	phoenix.ui <phoenix.ui-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	chris.guindon, daniel_megert, mknauer, Paul.White
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Macintosh
OS:	Mac OS X
Whiteboard:

Description Hal Perkins

2015-07-25 16:58:28 EDT

The main eclipse download page (https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/) contains an obsolete, or at least misleading, message about OS X versions at the top.  It says that eclipse requires OS X 10.5 or later.  But the current eclipse requires (I think) Java 7 or later, and that is not available for OS X versions older than about 10.7.  Probably best to delete this message entirely, or at least revise it and remove the reference to OS X 10.5 if there is a need to retain the info about how to get around developer signature problems with some versions of eclipse and more recent OS Xs.

Comment 1 Christopher Guindon

2015-07-27 09:23:55 EDT

I agree, this warning is misleading. We should update it with more details on how/where to download Java 7.

Comment 2 Hal Perkins

2015-07-28 15:50:04 EDT

For the last several years the Java situation on OS X has been the same as on Windows - you get the JDK installer from Oracle's web site.  I'm not sure there's any need for a OSX-specific notice about how to get the current version of Java on this page any longer.  In any case, Java 7 is officially no longer supported by Oracle and most people should be installing Java 8 or whatever is current, so the notice shouldn't describe how to get/install Java 7.

Comment 3 Christopher Guindon

2015-09-17 11:48:58 EDT

+1 for removing it.

Adding Markus to this bug for approval before removing the message.

Comment 4 Christopher Guindon

2016-11-08 12:19:49 EST

Changing this to WONT FIX since we did a complete redesign of the download page since this bug was posted.