On 12/19/2015 01:46 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote:
> Kay Schenk wrote:
>> For some reason, given Oliver's desire and urging to change to
>> Java 7 in
>> Windows back in August of 2013, I was under the impression that
>> since that
>> time, at least the Windows version was built with Java 1.7.
>
> I've re-read the discussion at
> http://markmail.org/message/4ieda3xpnoz3ec3h (the Markmail archive
> is incomplete, but this specific thread is readable) and it seems we
> discussed for 3 months but that this didn't end in a specific
> decision. For sure we still support Java 6; I'm not sure about Java
> 5, but that is quite irrelevant nowadays.
>
>> This topic has indeed been discussed in the past. Can you
>> refresh our
>> memories on what you mean by "safest"?
>
> "Safest" in terms of user compatibility. There are mixed opinions in
> that discussion, but Oliver's first message clearly states that,
> when built with Java 7, OpenOffice does not recognize Java 6 as a
> valid runtime; I don't know if it is a detection problem or a real
> problem.
>
> Regards,
> Andrea.
Ok, and thanks for following up. On the last remark, we should
investigate this further along with the Mac Java detection issues
(needing Java 6 to do ANY detection). As a side note, although we
still have the Java "-source" and "-target" flags in places, these
options are deprecated as of Java 1.6.
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