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Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 21:17:22 +0200
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Am 08/29/2012 06:48 PM, schrieb Ariel Constenla-Haile:
> Hi Andrea, *
>
> On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 06:38:48PM +0200, Andrea Pescetti wrote:
>> I found this commit from Marcus, from a few days ago:
>>
>>> Author: marcus
>>> Date: Fri Aug 24 22:17:10 2012
>>> New Revision: 1377138
>>> URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1377138&view=rev
>>> Log:
>>> #i120681# Updated the link to JRE 6 to point to the lastest build instead of a fixed version.
>>
>> Now, the idea of updating the link is correct, but if I recall
>> correctly the safest solution is to download the file we explicitly
>> mentioned (see the diff at the URL above for more details):
>> downloading a certain JRE version will still leave the doubt on
>> whether the user should get 32-bit or 64-bit files, like the ones
>> listed in
>> http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jre-6u32-downloads-1594646.html

I've changed it because I thought to point to a specific version doesn't 
make any sense.

Maybe I haven't followed the Windows <--> JRE 6/7 discussions not 
closely enough. :-/

>> Unless we know that all work (and from what I heard not all of them
>> do) it would be good to at least mention they need to use the
>> "Windows x86 Offline (32-bit)" file, but not having tried I won't
>> change the page again. Did anybody try?
>>
>> Regards,
>>    Andrea.
>
> According to Andreas http://markmail.org/message/w6x6e4dlzgwtfyd7 Base
> needs a very specific version of JRE 6, may be this is worth to be
> mentioned somewhere because pointing to the latest jre 6 won't work for
> Base users.

@Andreas:
Is that true, is there really a hard dependency for a specific JRE version?

Thanks

Marcus