On 02/11/2013 05:43 PM, Kay Schenk wrote:


On 02/11/2013 02:19 PM, Fred Ollinger wrote:
OK, I won't build with java6 anymore then.

Fred

More than likely no need unless certain sites/people refuse to update to java 1.7. I really can't imagine who that would be at this point.


On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Fernando Cassia <fcas...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Fred Ollinger <folli...@gmail.com> wrote:

Haha, I don't know. I could be wrong.


OpenJDK 7 is the current version, OpenJDK 8 is coming along nicely.

OpenJDK 6 is the past. Yes, there' s been some RedHat volunteers saying
they' ll keep releasing OpenJDK 6 updates and security fixes, but from a developers' perspective it' s as unattractive as some .Net developer still using the Net 1.0 APIs... or a Java developer still using JDK 1.4 for that
matter.

Ubuntu: OpenJDK 7
http://packages.ubuntu.com/oneiric/openjdk-7-jdk

Fedora 18: OpenJDK 7
http://pkgs.org/download/java-1.7.0-openjdk

SUSE: OpenJDK 7
http://software.opensuse.org/package/java-1_7_0-openjdk

Debian: OpenJDK 7
http://packages.debian.org/sid/openjdk-7-jre

ArchLinux: OpenJDK 7
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/jre7-openjdk/

So, again: "we should also respect that many distros are probably going to
ship java 6 for a while." = SciFi ?

FC



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Using a newer JDK is fine, just need to make sure the target version is correct. I am not sure what version is the minimum, I would guess 1.5. Need to be careful not to use features that is not supported by the minimum version. Let's not limit to just Linux distros. There is probably a good portion of users on Windows and not everybody is on top of their updates.

Michael

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