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submitted 1 year ago by devilish666@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] Honytawk@feddit.nl 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

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[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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[–] pillowtags@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago

Not if you want support from the vendor :p

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[–] ulterno@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

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

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