javac dependency not satisfied by installation instructions

[bitblit11]

I'm using Fedora 21. Java 1.8.0 OpenJDK is in the Fedora 21 repository, not 1.7.0. But either way, java-1.8.0-openjdk did not install the required javac executable. I had to install java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel. Recommend updating the wiki to include supported Linux distributions and versions and confirming that java-1.7.0-openjdk package installs javac or if it requires java-1.7.0-openjdk-devel as well.

[bitblit11]

It compiles with java-1.8.0-openjdk without any problems. I haven't thoroughly tested each GUI, but the few I checked out seem to work just fine.

[alexlin0]

Interesting, you would think that with "development" in the name that it would have included the javac compiler. I've made a note of it in our wiki. Thanks.

We've done some testing with 1.8, as far as we know everything should work.

[ezcrues]

Alex,

We use 1.8 on the Macs and it seems to work well.

Zack

On Mar 4, 2015, at 8:36 AM, Alex Lin notifications@github.com wrote:

Interesting, you would think that with "development" in the name that it would have included the javac compiler. I've made a note of it in our wiki. Thanks.

We've done some testing with 1.8, as far as we know everything should work.

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[hchen99]

If Java OpenJDK makes some parts of GUI working funny (people experienced having problems like not being able to select items from a drop-down list and etc. using OpenJDK), you may want to switch to Java JDK 8 from oracle.com.