My solution was to install Java 1.8, though that will be beyond most
people who might try to play FreeCol.
As a point of information, Linux Mint 17.2, which is based on Ubuntu
14.04 LTS ("long term support") only has Java 1.7. You have to manually
install Java 1.8 from the tarball to get it. I would expect Ubuntu 14.04
to linger until at least 2017 since LTS releases get 3 years support
though there should be a new LTS in 2016 at which point Mint will likely
switch forward.
That said, it seems reasonable to require Java 1.8 sooner rather than
later since it's unlikely that Java 1.8 won't be well deployed by the
time FreeCol manages a 1.0 release. Seems like it would warrant a jump
from 0.11.x to 0.12.x at that time, though.
On 2015-08-16 14:20, win...@genial.ms wrote:
> Hi,
>
> we recently updated these to the most recent available version.
> Currently we are still supporting 1.7, although transition to 1.8
> is planned somewhen in the future, as most people are on 1.8 now.
> I guess, Mike did not doublecheck compatibility with 1.7.
> You could compile the sources from http://www.jcraft.com/jorbis/
> as a temporary solution.
>
>
> Greetings,
>
> wintertime
>
>
>> Gesendet: Sonntag, 16. August 2015 um 07:54 Uhr
>> Von: "William Astle" <l...@l-w.ca>
>> An: freecol-developers@lists.sourceforge.net
>> Betreff: [Freecol-developers] Building with Java 1.7
>>
>> The current trunk doesn't build cleanly with Java 1.7. It complains
>> about unsupported major numbers in the jar files for jorbis and jogg.
>> The resulting build hangs at the splash screen on my system. Updating my
>> system to Java 1.8 allows it to build clean and run properly. The
>> resulting binary built with Java 1.8 doesn't work with Java 1.7, either
>> (hangs at the splash screen still).
>>
>> If the intention is to require Java 1.8, that's fine, of course.
>>
>
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