Dear JabRef developers, in the last weeks it is often asked, which is the minimum requirement on the Java Runtime Environment to run the current version of JabRef. We recommend Sun JRE version 1.5, right?
But on the home page, we wite on several places that Jaref "[...] requires Java 1.4 or newer.", see e.g.: https://sourceforge.net/projects/jabref/ http://jabref.sourceforge.net/faq.php Furthermore, there is a misleading error message appearing when you try to run JabRef 2.3 beta 2 on JRE 1.4, see: https://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1815166&forum_id=318825 Why is it not possible to check for the JRE version number in the very beginning of the program using System.getProperty("java.version"); and give a correct error message when the JRE is too old. If we keep the current behaviour of the program,maybe we loose a lot of potential users because they do not know the reason of this problem. -- Bye, Kolja ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Jabref-devel mailing list Jabref-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jabref-devel
