[kepler-dev] Java 7 and ant 1.8.2

[Benjamin Leinfelder]

Hi Dan,
Requiring Java 7 seems reasonable, especially if you want to use features only available in version 7. This will be for current development and the upcoming 2.5 release, correct?
-ben

On Jul 11, 2014, at 9:57 AM, Daniel Crawl <danielcrawl at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> I'd like to require Java 7 for Kepler. Java 7 has new features and
> better performance, and Oracle is no longer publicly releasing security
> updates for Java 6. Does anyone object to Kepler requiring Java 7?
> 
> For developers compiling Kepler, ant 1.8.2 or later is now required.
> With the addition of new modules and jars, the class path has exceeded
> the maximum path length on Windows. To avoid this problem, I've updated
> the Kepler build system to use wildcards for the class path instead of
> referencing individual jars. The earliest version of ant that supports
> wildcards in the class path is 1.8.2.
> 
>  --dan
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