trac.macports.org down -- have bug in Ivy build

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Wed Sep 2 22:59:31 PDT 2015


On Sep 2, 2015, at 7:13 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 7:56 PM, David Herron wrote:
>> But on my system that directory doesn't exist. I just updated to 10.10 (whatever the code name is)
> 
> Yes, 10.10 (and I think 10.9) doesn't ship with Java. 10.9 may have had a stub that calls an installer there, but Apple has made it clear that they are no longer in the business of providing or supporting Java; you must install it yourself from Oracle.
> Ideally the Portfile would check for that and tell you to install it first.

Yes but lots of ports use java; they shouldn't each have to reimplement that logic. Isn't this what the java 1.0 portgroup is for?



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