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Happy dev noises (lemmy.world)

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[-] Honytawk@feddit.nl 10 points 1 month ago

Some crappy software actively checks for a specific version, and you can't work around that.

[-] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago

Can you edit the byte code with a hex editor to change that check?

[-] pillowtags@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago

Not if you want support from the vendor :p

[-] ulterno@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

Just build the OSS version of java-impl with the patched version number as expected by the shitty software.

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