On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 02:23, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2014/12/31 00:13, Marc Espie wrote:
>> well, jdk 1.7 just stopped building. because one file is >10 years old and
>> there is an explicit check for that in the build process.
>>
>> Just think about it.
>
> Can't go perpetuating 10-year-old currencies, that would be terrible!
>
> This should be reasonable until openjdk catches up with the newer files
> from java 8.
> +- if (Math.abs(time - System.currentTimeMillis()) > ((long)
> 10) * 365 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000) {
> +- throw new RuntimeException("time is more than 10 years
> from present: " + time);
> +- }
Maybe we should only change it to eleven years? Kind of like how
the government does "emergency" budget extensions? /ducks and runs...
