[Libreoffice] Java 7 - not recognised in LO in Windows Vista

Michael Meeks michael.meeks at novell.com
Mon Aug 1 02:08:24 PDT 2011


On Sat, 2011-07-30 at 13:57 +0200, Francois Tigeot wrote:
>   "These problems were detected only 5 days before the official Java 7 release,
>   so Oracle had no time to fix those bugs"
> 
> They knew before the release date their product was broken and they still
> shipped it. Unbelievable.

	We do the same - checkout the release notes, and 'most annoying' bugs
list[1] :-) [ help fixing them much appreciated ] but on the other hand
we can re-spin our release rather more quickly ;-) so I'd hope that we
would fix this sort of thing.

> Instead of taking steps to enable the use of Java 7, we may want to actively
> discourage it for now.

	Sounds reasonable.

	ATB,

		Michael.

[1] - https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35673 dependencies
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