Drop support for Java 5?

[Noel Grandin]

On 2012-10-02 15:53, Christian Lohmaier wrote:
> Hi David, *,
>
> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:37 PM,  <d.ostrovsky at idaia.de> wrote:
>> Zitat von Christian Lohmaier <lohmaier+libreoffice at googlemail.com>:
>>> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 1:27 PM,  <d.ostrovsky at idaia.de> wrote:
>>>
>>> Mac OSX 10.4 only comes with 1.5.
>> what about to drop support for Mac OS X 10.4 then?
> Needless to say that I won't be happy abount it.
>
> As dropping 10.4 won't bring any benefits in terms of Mac OSX features
> to be used, this almost automatically means also dropping 10.5, and
> that in turn means dropping PPC support.
>
>

At some point in time, we have to balance the amount of development 
resources we have against the number of people running a particular 
platform.

People on that platform, are, of course, welcome to maintain a fork that 
supports that platform.
Git makes this particularly easy.



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