thinkingrock-gtd
Mac installer - ensure clear steps after JRE removal
JRE was bundled automatically in the Mac installer. We removed it because of security concerns about ant-contrib discussed in #35
We need to ensure that there won't be any obstacles for Mac users. Document it, bundle it or find better solutions.
My thoughts to make the bugs/app more reproducible and simple are:
- bundle a JRE version also for macOS
- make working the app only with the bundled JRE version
I know that in the existing version we have the choice to download a version that uses (or not) the bundled JRE. But I'm asking:
- does is this useful yet?
- will we have the bandwidth to support/triage different flavours of JDK?
- does that give us something more to the users?
What do you think?
My thoughts to make the bugs/app more reproducible and simple are:
- bundle a JRE version also for macOS
I would bundle it not just for the Mac, but for all platforms. It's currently popular solution of solving dependency on runtime and related issues.
- make working the app only with the bundled JRE version
Why this? We can't hardly expect that someone will update configuration to run on a different version of java. If yes it's just an unsupported scenario.
I know that in the existing version we have the choice to download a version that uses (or not) the bundled JRE. But I'm asking:
- does is this useful yet?
- will we have the bandwidth to support/triage different flavours of JDK?
Currently I don't see enough power but this possibility could be changed later if needed.
- does that give us something more to the users?
I don't think so.
What do you think?