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>Sun JDK 1.6. (OpenJDK is not supported)

On Ubuntu Sun JDK is not supported.

I'll stick to free Aptana plugin for Eclipse.

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Just install Sun JDK. I tried PyCharm (maybe a year ago) with OpenJDK on Fedora and it wasn't really that great. It worked but the UI was broken and fonts were not aliased (seemed like raster fonts).

You can install Sun JDK on Ubuntu. It's not a big deal. There are still some problems with using OpenJDK, which are being solved now. So, it will be supported someday too.

Really? Because this issue is marked wontfix: http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/PY-4763

I've noticed that to the extent JetBrains communicates at all, it has a highly irritating habit of marking issues wontfix and making content-free statements (sometimes passive aggressive at that) until they get publicly called on it, and suddenly it's a completely different attitude.

It was 6 months ago. And it was a 100% wontfix then. But things change quite rapidly nowadays. Here's one problem solved: https://twitter.com/#!/eniton/statuses/186861528677494784. Maybe others can be solved too.

Six months ago, OpenJDK had already been declared the official reference implementation for Java SE 7 (for several months, in fact), and the OS Distributor License had already been withdrawn -- almost two months before that issue was closed.

"Things change quite rapidly" indeed. Is JetBrains not able to keep up?

Unfortunately, declaring something does not always really change things. Something else is often required.

JetBrains team has its opinions but is also flexible enough to change its mind. And it has been keeping up quite good during the last 10+ years.

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