[Libreoffice] Java screws el reg ...

[Christian Lohmaier]

Hi Michael, *,

On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Michael Meeks <michael.meeks at novell.com> wrote:
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/01/mac_os_x_10_point_7_preview/page2.html

1st of all: This is about a not-yet-released version of Max OS X.

>        hypothetical scenario, if you had just installed LibreOffice and
>        written a few hundred words of copy, you wouldn't be able to
>        save your work if no JVM had been installed when the program was
>        launched. Apparently the file-saving functionality is one of the
>        Java bits and LibreOffice needs a restart for saving to work.
>        Who knew?

Yes, who knew - does the author really know it is related to Java?
As there are bugreports of 10.7 preveiew users who cannot save new documents.

If all that it takes is a java runtime, then there is an easy workaround.

>        Looks bad; it seems we screwed over Liam; hopefully he could copy/paste
> out of it, but ...
>
>        Is this really so ? it'd be great to isolate and kill whatever Java is
> required to save anything on Mac ?

Well, I kind of doubt it, but unless some LO-Dev with 10.7 tries it
out, or those on the bugreport provide more details, all that remains
is guesswork.

I really doubt saving would have anything to do with a JRE
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38290

Last comment in there states that a new release of Max OS X Lion -
preview did fix the problem. If I understand GM correctly, this is the
golden master version, i.e. the one that is going to be sold to
end-users.

ciao
Christian