+1 There is no point to invest insane amounts of time in weird compatibility voodoo magic for something that will be fixed in 1-2 weeks.
Marc-André Laverdière Software Security Scientist Innovation Labs, Tata Consultancy Services Hyderabad, India On 07/30/2011 05:27 PM, Francois Tigeot wrote: > On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 11:25:47PM +0200, Florian Effenberger wrote: >> JFYI, don't know if this is a valid issue, but wanted to share >> >> -------- Original Message -------- >> Subject: [tdf-discuss] Java 7 - not recognised in LO in Windows Vista >> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 21:36:26 +0100 >> From: Mike Hall <mike.h...@onepoyle.net> >> Reply-to: disc...@documentfoundation.org >> To: disc...@documentfoundation.org >> >> Noticed by chance that Java 7.0 was released today. It's not in the >> normal update cycle yet, but you can download it from: >> www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/java-se-jre-7-download-432155.html >> >> It installs and works fine in a number of apps (eg Jedit), but I can't >> get LO 3.4.1 to recognise it, not even when given what should be the >> right path (via Tools > Options > Java > Add) >> >> Just wondering whether this is something that needs to be looked at >> before 3.4.2 is released as I expect it will soon become the standard >> Java release? > > It seems Java 7 has been knowingly released with critical bugs: > > http://www.lucidimagination.com/blog/2011/07/28/dont-use-java-7-for-anything/ > > "These problems were detected only 5 days before the official Java 7 > release, > so Oracle had no time to fix those bugs" > > They knew before the release date their product was broken and they still > shipped it. Unbelievable. > > Instead of taking steps to enable the use of Java 7, we may want to actively > discourage it for now. > _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
