Re: Does Java 8 actually work on Windows XP

2013-12-12 Thread Francis ANDRE
Hi Le 12/12/2013 17:57, Phil Race a écrit : Very probably, since I think the Oracle JDK 32 bit binaries are still built on XP SP3. But no one tests on XP any more, so I couldn't say for certain. But I'd expect that to change to "definitely not" early in JDK 9, since once we move to newer VS com

Re: Does Java 8 actually work on Windows XP

2013-12-12 Thread Phil Race
Similar answer as Windows. RE build on 10.7 and I know that JDK8 is working on 10.7 for me. But no official support and no testing done by SQE. -phil. On 12/12/2013 9:03 AM, Paul Taylor wrote: > BTW is Java 8 for OSX supported for OSX 10.7.5 onwards like Java 7 ? 10.8 will be the lowest offi

Re: Does Java 8 actually work on Windows XP

2013-12-12 Thread Paul Taylor
On 12/12/2013 16:57, Phil Race wrote: Very probably, since I think the Oracle JDK 32 bit binaries are still built on XP SP3. But no one tests on XP any more, so I couldn't say for certain. okay But I'd expect that to change to "definitely not" early in JDK 9, since once we move to newer VS co

Re: Does Java 8 actually work on Windows XP

2013-12-12 Thread Phil Race
Very probably, since I think the Oracle JDK 32 bit binaries are still built on XP SP3. But no one tests on XP any more, so I couldn't say for certain. But I'd expect that to change to "definitely not" early in JDK 9, since once we move to newer VS compilers they'll not be able to create binaries