[Libreoffice] Java baseline is 1.5, right?

[Marc-André Laverdière]

Can we keep it in with a 'use at your own risk and peril'?
I don't think that spending energy on 1.4 bugs is wise, but if someone 
finds them, let 'em fix.

-- 
Marc-André Laverdière
Software Security Scientist
Innovation Labs, Tata Consultancy Services
Hyderabad, India

On Thu 15 Sep 2011 07:15:06 PM IST, Bjoern Michaelsen wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:38:04 +0200
> Fridrich Strba
> <fridrich.strba at graduateinstitute.ch>
> wrote:
> 
>> Hello, Michael,
>>
>> On 15/09/11 15:06, Michael Stahl wrote:
>>> just noticed David's commit to move around the fix for a broken IBM
>>> LinuxPPC JRE:
>>> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=ab5ce3f70a5635c3ca141b5c8928a104b522e1bb
>>> AFAIK the OOo JRE baseline was raised to 1.5 some years ago, right?
>>> so 1.4 seems obsolete and we can get rid of it now?
>>
>> No real baseline for us here. It is true that our release builds for
>> linux, we build them with --with-java-target-version=1.5 using 1.6 as
>> javac. Nevertheless, if a fix for 1.4 is reasonably cheap, it cannot
>> be bad to keep it building.
> 
> OTOH 'mostly working on 1.4' doesnt help anybody and creates useless
> bug traffic -- better clearly state its unsupported and be done with
> it. And even small fixes for obsolete stuff can stack quite high (just
> look at all the Win16 optimizations in the codebase).
> 
> Best,
> 
> Bjoern