Re: [Freecol-developers] housekeeping

2013-01-10 Thread Uwe
Hi Michael, 2013/1/10 Michael T. Pope mp...@computer.org One further insight: I only encountered minor performance issues with OpenJDK when I first switched to it about three of so years ago. IMHO such concerns are largely outdated and/or overstated, and outweighed by a preference to

Re: [Freecol-developers] housekeeping

2013-01-09 Thread Uwe
Hi, 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

Re: [Freecol-developers] housekeeping

2013-01-09 Thread Michael T. Pope
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

Re: [Freecol-developers] housekeeping

2013-01-09 Thread Uwe
Hi, please excuse my unaccurate information. 2013/1/9 Michael T. Pope mp...@computer.org 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

[Freecol-developers] housekeeping

2013-01-08 Thread Michael T. Pope
There are several housekeeping issues pending. - sourceforge upgrade Unless there are objections I plan to click the sourceforge `upgrade project' link fairly soon, albeit not earlier than 20130110 UTC. AFAICT the world is unlikely to end as a result, although commits made during the

Re: [Freecol-developers] housekeeping

2013-01-08 Thread Michael Vehrs
On 09.01.2013 03:28, Michael T. Pope wrote: There are several housekeeping issues pending. - sourceforge upgrade Unless there are objections I plan to click the sourceforge `upgrade project' link fairly soon, albeit not earlier than 20130110 UTC. AFAICT the world is unlikely to end as