Hi Till, True - but then there are a lot of companies still use IE 5 and Windows XP. Java 1.7 support is being retired seven months and this was why I think going straight to 1.8 would be better.
Cheers, J On Aug 29, 2014, at 1:51 PM, Till Schäfer <till2.schae...@tu-dortmund.de> wrote: > Hi, > Indeed, a requirement on Java 1.8 would be very hard, but i guess "go > straight to 1.8" means support 1.8 at all?! Otherwise, there are a lot of > computers our there (especially in some companies) who could not provide a > very new Java Version (1.8). > > Regards, > Till > > Am Freitag, 29. August 2014, 05:04:56 schrieb Cyrus Harmon: >> >> I’m not sure if this is a compelling reason or not, but the version of the >> JRE that comes with current MacOS is 1.7, I think. >> >> I assume that changing the JDK to 1.8 would necessitate a 1.8 JRE for users, >> but who knows, maybe that’s not the case. >> >> thanks, >> >> Cyrus >> >> On Aug 29, 2014, at 4:38 AM, John May <john...@ebi.ac.uk> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I was thinking we should move off 1.6 since it’s no longer supported. I >>> would like to hop 1.7 and go straight to 1.8 since it’s been out a while >>> but wanted some opinions. Would changing the JDK version cause problems for >>> anyone? >>> >>> Cheers, >>> John >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> Slashdot TV. >>> Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. >>> http://tv.slashdot.org/ >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Cdk-devel mailing list >>> cdk-de...@lists.sourceforge.net >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cdk-devel >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Slashdot TV. >> Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. >> http://tv.slashdot.org/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Cdk-devel mailing list >> cdk-de...@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cdk-devel > -- > Dipl.-Inf. Till Schäfer > TU Dortmund University > Chair 11 - Algorithm Engineering > Otto-Hahn-Str. 14 / Room 237 > 44227 Dortmund, Germany > > e-mail: till.schae...@cs.tu-dortmund.de > phone: +49(231)755-7706 > fax: +49(231)755-7740 > web: http://ls11-www.cs.uni-dortmund.de/staff/schaefer > pgp: > https://keyserver2.pgp.com/vkd/SubmitSearch.event?&&SearchCriteria=0xD84DED79 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Slashdot TV. > Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. > http://tv.slashdot.org/ > _______________________________________________ > Cdk-user mailing list > Cdk-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cdk-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. http://tv.slashdot.org/ _______________________________________________ Cdk-user mailing list Cdk-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cdk-user
