Can we keep it in with a 'use at your own risk and peril'? I don't think that spending energy on 1.4 bugs is wise, but if someone finds them, let 'em fix.
-- Marc-André Laverdière Software Security Scientist Innovation Labs, Tata Consultancy Services Hyderabad, India On Thu 15 Sep 2011 07:15:06 PM IST, Bjoern Michaelsen wrote: > On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:38:04 +0200 > Fridrich Strba > <fridrich.st...@graduateinstitute.ch> > wrote: > >> Hello, Michael, >> >> On 15/09/11 15:06, Michael Stahl wrote: >>> just noticed David's commit to move around the fix for a broken IBM >>> LinuxPPC JRE: >>> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=ab5ce3f70a5635c3ca141b5c8928a104b522e1bb >>> AFAIK the OOo JRE baseline was raised to 1.5 some years ago, right? >>> so 1.4 seems obsolete and we can get rid of it now? >> >> No real baseline for us here. It is true that our release builds for >> linux, we build them with --with-java-target-version=1.5 using 1.6 as >> javac. Nevertheless, if a fix for 1.4 is reasonably cheap, it cannot >> be bad to keep it building. > > OTOH 'mostly working on 1.4' doesnt help anybody and creates useless > bug traffic -- better clearly state its unsupported and be done with > it. And even small fixes for obsolete stuff can stack quite high (just > look at all the Win16 optimizations in the codebase). > > Best, > > Bjoern _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
