Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: sierra? Date: 8 Oct 2016 19:52:21 GMT Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <57f7b4b0$0$1273$c3e8da3$1cbc7475@news.astraweb.com> <071020161110577036%nospam@nospam.invalid> <071020161214356108%nospam@nospam.invalid> <071020161315144458%nospam@nospam.invalid> <262dnatgxNiVemrKnZ2dnUU7-IHNnZ2d@giganews.com> <071020161443050717%nospam@nospam.invalid> <392dnf3d7tD9mWTKnZ2dnUU7-QfNnZ2d@giganews.com> X-Trace: individual.net dBlCP6/iuH7vPmTdy7o25gcFrNkYawhi3c1K8T36HJy/brGSQg Cancel-Lock: sha1:zNT+ksDf/6jsFLb2SBCNv0LnIo0= Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Darwin) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.apps:36752 On 2016-10-08, Happy.Hobo wrote: > On 10-08-2016 13:36, Jolly Roger wrote: >> Alan Browne wrote: >>> >>> AFAIK there are no security issues with JRT. >> >> Huh? Of course there are. And they get patched all the time. > > Which makes me wonder why, after (how many?) years, Apple still offers > an installer for a long-obsolete JVM Why does Apple offer old versions of *anything*? Think about that for a bit. : ) > instead of either updating or telling us to get it from Oracle. Where have you been? Apple announced long, long ago (back in 2010 circa macOS 10.6, IIRC) that Java for macOS is deprecated, and they they'd no longer be responsible for porting, maintaining and updating the JRE: -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR