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On 7/14/2016 5:40 PM, Steve Graham wrote:
> So you don't think I should report this?  Why?

I am not convinced that it is an error.

They may very well have wanted developers to
set that version specific PATH.

Developers are expected to be more knowledgeable than
normal users.

And a good portion of developers have multiple versions
of JDK installed and will want to control which to use
manually always.

Arne