On Sat, 25 Jul 2015 09:18:38 +0200 [email protected] wrote: > Btw., the reason for the 0.10.7 bug report is slow updates there: > https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=freecol > And there are many other distributions using their packages. > So yeah, it might be better to keep 0.10.7 compatibility, as its too late for > Jessie.
Quite so. I admire many things about debian, but their release practice is not one of them. > > > >[Caleb] > > > > FreeCol should take advantage of any features of Java 1.7 that it can. > > We already had 2 incidences of accidentally using a 1.8 method and it took a > quite long > time until someone complained, so one could guess not many are still using > 1.7. > It seems Oracle alrready stopped providing public updates to 1.7 in April? > http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/documentation/eol-135779.html Argh, that snuck up on me. I had thought the Java7 EOL was not later this year. Perhaps I am thinking of security-specific updates for which there might be an exception. I was not in a huge rush to move to 8 given that FreeCol is still fairly new to Java7, but it looks like that needs to be moved up the priorities. Java8 has been the default for me for a while, which means the RedHat-derived linuxes are either up to date or getting there. debian had it packaged in unstable last time I looked, and FreeBSD has it, so I think we can assume most unixes at least have a package available to install. Can you comment on the windows situation? IIRC, last time we decided to not worry about XP:-). I will check on the mac situation when I get a chance. > Is there anything in 1.8 that would be useful for us someday? Lambdas look good to me. Lisp will never die. Cheers, Mike Pope
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