Hi Thorsten, Thanks again for the explanation.
With the changes to Java licensing, alternative distributions of Java have become increasingly popular. They all have their pros and cons, https://whichjdk.com/. All the best, James On Fri, 10 Feb 2023 at 14:06, Thorsten Glaser <t.gla...@tarent.de> wrote: > On Fri, 10 Feb 2023, James Kennard wrote: > > >Is there a particular reason why you are continuing to update it as > opposed > >to recommending people switch to an alternative distribution such as > >Temurin? > > I don’t know what Temurin even is. > > While I do recommend that people switch to default-jdk, and in fact > we have been needing to use at least 11 in development for a while > because Maven plugins from Central didn’t work with 8 for some time > even when intended to, some customers still run prod on 8, so we > need it for testing. (Or, at least, used to; I’m currently not in > a Java project at work.) I also have been supplying a customer with > openjdk-8 as jessie backport before it was in backports itself, then > ELTS. (The mentioned customer is also no longer in a situation to > receive/need these, but this gives historical context.) > > I just did not cease updating this. > > bye, > //mirabilos > -- > Infrastrukturexperte • tarent solutions GmbH > Am Dickobskreuz 10, D-53121 Bonn • http://www.tarent.de/ > Telephon +49 228 54881-393 • Fax: +49 228 54881-235 > HRB AG Bonn 5168 • USt-ID (VAT): DE122264941 > Geschäftsführer: Dr. Stefan Barth, Kai Ebenrett, Boris Esser, Alexander > Steeg > > > **************************************************** > /⁀\ The UTF-8 Ribbon > ╲ ╱ Campaign against Mit dem tarent-Newsletter nichts mehr verpassen: > ╳ HTML eMail! Also, https://www.tarent.de/newsletter > ╱ ╲ header encryption! > > **************************************************** >
