On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 5:11 AM, Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org>wrote:
> On 12/09/2013 Kay Schenk wrote:
>
>> Did we reach a consensus on this one?
>> Wait until 4.1 to "officially" change java build environment to 7?
>> Buildbots are still at 6, although I know some of us are using 7 for
>> building with no problems.
>>
>
> We didn't reach consensus, the reason being (rather than disagreement)
> that it's unclear:
> - what the proposal is about exactly
> - what's broken in the current setup
> - what's the impact on people who wish to build OpenOffice
> - what's the impact on people who wish to use OpenOffice
>
> Now, after yet another discussion where we explain Java to each other, we
> can take for granted that we all know about it and move on and see what the
> proposal is about in concrete, so that is can be evaluated properly and
> maybe implemented in time for 4.1.
>
> Regards,
> Andrea.
>
>
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OK, I'm back on this old thread. The thing is the security considerations
do not just apply to Windows. I suggest we switch to java 7 as default and
change the settings for "javacompiler" in configure.in appropriately to
deal with this.
Although by default, I build with java 7, I will make this change locally
and see what happens.
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