>>>Remember that Eclipse can be installed everywhere - Java cannot
You don't actually need to install Java to run Eclipse. Put it under
'eclipse/jdk' or change eclipse.ini. Is that an option?

Thanks,

Renat


On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 1:19 PM, Tonny Madsen <[email protected]>wrote:

> No so... Remember that Eclipse can be installed everywhere - Java cannot.
> And often you can upgrade many features of Eclipse across the major
> releases. There might be parts of m2e that will depend on the Kepler
> platform... but nothing obvious comes to mind... /Tonny
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> On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 9:55 PM, Thomas Hallgren <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>  If an IT-department is unwilling to upgrade the JVM's, what makes you
>> think they'd be willing to upgrade Eclipse and m2e? I'd consider them both
>> vital part of the "locked down" development platforms. So why is this a
>> problem?
>>
>> - thomas
>>
>>
>> On 2013-05-30 20:59, Tonny Madsen wrote:
>>
>> Igor,
>>
>>  You write: "Does anyone have a good reasons to stay with java 6 past
>> this coming
>> June? ("my IT department is too retarded to allow java7" is probably not
>> a good reason)."
>>
>>  I don't know if you ever worked in the IT department of a large bank,
>> offshore consultancy company or a similar institution, but... these
>> organizations want to control the amount of support and maintenance by
>> locking down the used platforms. "Retarded"??? I'm pretty sure most IT
>> people would make the same choices given the available resources in the IT
>> departments!
>>
>>  Java 7 might make your life easier, but is that really reason enough to
>> alienate an insignificant part of your users?
>>
>>  /Tonny
>>
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>> On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 4:10 AM, Igor Fedorenko <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> I'd like to propose moving m2e to require java7 execution environment
>>> after Kepler SR0 is out. I am getting really addicted to
>>> try-with-resources syntax [1], and with java6 past it's eol [2] already,
>>> I see little/no reasons to stick with this version any longer.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have a good reasons to stay with java 6 past this coming
>>> June? ("my IT department is too retarded to allow java7" is probably not
>>> a good reason).
>>>
>>> [1]
>>> http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/exceptions/tryResourceClose.html
>>> [2] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html
>>>
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