----- Messaggio originale -----
> Da: Ariel Constenla-Haile
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 09:10:09AM -0800, Kay Schenk wrote:
>> On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Pedro Giffuni wrote:
>> > Hello Kay;
>> >
>> > Yes, I can confirm after solving those two issues,we got OpenOffice
> building with JDK 7 on FreeBSD:
>> >
>> >
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/editors/openoffice-3-devel/files/
>> >
>> > Pedro.
>>
>> Hey -- thanks for this notice. Well, IMO, we should fix these
>> supposedly *trivial* issues and get on with java 7. Java 6 is out of
>> support for *some* time now. We can't expect users to keep an older
>> version like 6 around.
>
> AFAIK the Java base is 1.5 (both source and target). Moving this to 1.7
> is a bad idea.
>
My understanding is that Java 1.5 is EOL. I agree that moving to 1.7
is a bad idea, so I would say 1.6 is what should be expected.
Of course we will have to clean the build for 1.7 anyways and the sooner
the better.
Pedro.
