On Wed, 9 Jan 2013 12:30:47 PM Uwe wrote: > 2013/1/9 Michael T. Pope <mp...@computer.org> > > > - Java > > > > It is probably time to bump our minimum required Java version from 1.5 > > to 1.6/6. 1.5 is quite dead, whereas 6 is only under threat of death. > > Ubuntu distributes OpenJava instead of Oracle Java, so a lot of people use > that knowingly or not.
Are you sure you do not mean OpenJDK? Googling "Ubuntu OpenJava" triggers the "Including results for Ubuntu openjdk" alert, the top result is the "Java - Community Ubuntu Documentation" page (last edit 20130107) which has no mention of OpenJava but discusses OpenJDK first, and specifically mentions packages for openjdk-6 and openjdk-7. The first mention of "OpenJava" is for an unrelated source code analysis tool. If so, then Ubuntu is not a concern, as they clearly support Java 6 (alias 1.6), and have abandoned 1.5, like most other linux distributions I am aware of, and as I now propose FreeCol should do. > Switching to Oracle Java is not quick and easy. You are the first to mention Oracle Java. Perhaps you can explain why it is relevant? Cheers, Mike Pope
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