Re: [ jEdit-users ] [ jEdit-devel ] should jEdit 5.1 depend on Java 6 or 7?

[Bosse I. <bo...@us...>]

Though not an official jEdit developer, I still do a lot of work with jEdit at our local site (a closed secure net not connected to the Internet), and I support the general idea of moving forward in using the latest Java version. Admittedly, I am unaware of the real and potentional technical difficulties, so I refrein from making an actual vote, but I still want to express my support for the effort to look forward rather than to hang on to old functionality forever simply for the sake of backward compatibility. If I were a Mac (or whatever platform) user, I might briefly be annoyed over that the latest jEdid version did not work on my platform, but I would (yes, I really would) understand that this was not a problem with jEdit, but with the crappy or non-existing Java implementation on that platform. So, please; Keep moving forward! /BosseFrom: rob...@gm...
CC: jed...@li...
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 12:53:25 -0700
Subject: Re: [ jEdit-users ] [ jEdit-devel ] should jEdit 5.1 depend on Java	6 or 7?

+1 for Java 7 Robert From: Eric Ladner [mailto:eri...@gm...] 
Sent: Monday, April 15, 2013 12:51 PM
To: Alan Ezust
Cc: jedit-users
Subject: Re: [ jEdit-users ] [ jEdit-devel ] should jEdit 5.1 depend on Java 6 or 7? Java 7 is available for Mac (at least Lion or newer).  I'd think anybody technical enough to use jEdit would be technical enough to figure out how to install it. Plus, like others have said:  1) Java 6 is EOL 2) Previous versions of jEdit will still work with Java 6 +1 for Java 7 On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Alan Ezust <ala...@gm...> wrote:I am posting this question to jEdit users. How many of you think it is important that jEdit 5.1 support Java 6?

Pros for Require Java7 now:
    we can set template types for some of the existing java API classes.
    some of the mac issues will be simplified. 
Votes: Dale Anson, Thomas Meyer

Don't require Java7 yet:
    mac users can still use java6 which is available via the apple store while java7 is not.
Votes: Eric Berry, Alan Ezust, matthieu








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