Christian: A significant percentage of end user desktops still run Java 6 and it remains at least for now our baseline. Could be a significant issue to require 7. thanks *P
On 2/25/13 10:16 AM, Christian Grün wrote: > Dear subscribers, > > as you may know, the source code of BaseX is still based on Java 6. > There following reasons would speak for a switch to Java 7: > > * as of Feb 15, Oracle will no longer post public updates for Java SE6 [1] > * among various minor convenience features, Java 7 provides new I/O > libraries to improve platform independence (e.g. support for symbolic > links) > > Obviously, a switch would restrict those who are still bound to work > with Java 6, so please speak out now if you still requires BaseX to be > compatible with Java 6... > > Thanks all, > Christian > > [1] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html > _______________________________________________ > BaseX-Talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.uni-konstanz.de/mailman/listinfo/basex-talk > _______________________________________________ BaseX-Talk mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.uni-konstanz.de/mailman/listinfo/basex-talk
