<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Thanks for discussing this issue. It is true that there is a Java as a category, but I am almost sure that this check is not available there. I guess the best choice is to run a script and let the user to download the appropriate JDK.<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 31, 2016, at 12:24 PM, Ryan Schmidt <<a href="mailto:ryandesign@macports.org" class="">ryandesign@macports.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">On Mar 31, 2016, at 10:54 AM, Chris Jones wrote:</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">On 31/03/16 16:50, Ryan Schmidt wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Mar 31, 2016, at 10:47 AM, Abdulrahman Alshammari wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Mar 31, 2016, at 11:26 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Mar 31, 2016, at 10:00 AM, Abdulrahman Alshammari wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Someone told me that I can download JDk from macports. However, I could not find the any port belong to this. What I need is to update my JDK version without going to Oracle website.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">I'm not aware of a port that provides the JDK. Why don't you want to download it from Oracle?<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Because I want to make it as a dependency for other software. Is there any way. I remember your suggestion about jdk checker, but it will be better if I can download it.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Hmm. We have a port for oracle-instantclient, but we are not able to download its distfiles automatically due to restrictions imposed by the Oracle web site; they require agreeing to a license agreement first. So installing that port is somewhat inconvenient for users. I don't know if the JDK has similar restrictions. In any case, the JDK probably needs to install into system locations, so it would not be suitable for installing via a port. I think we just expect the user to install the JDK manually. The JDK used to be part of OS X, so it was a non-issue, and we haven't really developed a better strategy now that JDK is separate.<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><br class="">I think given the nature of the JDK is really is not something we want macports installing automatically for a user. I for one would want to be made very aware when its required. So I think really the right thing to do here is to just check if it is available, and if not issue a message to the user telling them what to do to install it themselves (at which point they can decide if they really want the port that requires it...).<br class=""></blockquote><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Since there's likely more than one port needing this kind of check, it would make sense to abstract it out into a portgroup. We already have a java portgroup. I'm not entirely clear on how it's used, but maybe it makes sense to add this check to that portgroup.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">_______________________________________________</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">macports-users mailing list</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><a href="mailto:macports-users@lists.macosforge.org" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">macports-users@lists.macosforge.org</a><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><a href="https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users</a></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>