[support] why so high depends ?

[mckaygerhard]

this its a old-style graphics game, and need JDK 8 ? among others things? really?

[mckaygerhard]

seems infinite mario does not need so high depends.. also where's the original source with all the propietary artwork? just for personal use?

[qbancoffee]

You can definitely compile the game with a lower java of 1.6 but it will not render the graphics correctly with an OpenJDK provided by linux distros as is also the case with Infinite Mario.

You could however download an Oracle JRE binary or a reference OpenJDK binary from Oracle(this is what you do on Windows anyhow) and it will render the graphics correctly with Java 6. This seems like too much trouble when distros already provide an OpenJDK.

Also, using Java8 makes sense since I think has become the default JRE these days on most major linux distros(not 100% sure though). It's also considered the stable release that will receive maintenance.

The point of infinite tux was to make the whole project open source so as to remove all illegally distributed assets. You can now freely distribute the code and assets without having to worry about legal action.