Bug: a88/d6e

ID :	d6ed1282-f085-4492-a4a9-797651411287
Short name :	a88/d6e
Status :	fixed
Severity :	minor
Assigned :
Reporter :	Pontus Lurcock <pont@talvi.net>
Creator :	Pontus Lurcock <pont@talvi.net>
Created :	Tue, 08 Apr 2014 14:09:18 +0000
Target :	1.03
Summary :	Update source/binary format to Java 1.7 [282]

Comment:

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ID: cbd407c7-8fb8-4393-8eeb-fa8158202c93
Short name: a88/d6e/cbd
From: Pontus Lurcock <pont@talvi.net>
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2014 14:09:18 +0000

Java 6 is more or less at EOL, and there are some nice improvements
in 1.7 which will help to clean the code up a bit (try/catch resource
management etc.). As ever, OS X is the holdout, since pre-10.7 users
can't easily install Java 7. However, these are down to ~20% of the
OS X user base now (and falling), so it will soon become reasonable to
drop support -- especially since those on old Macs can just keep using
the old PuffinPlot.

Comment:

--------- Comment ---------
ID: 5c88f8a1-683a-46f1-bc41-9faab2d2dc4a
Short name: a88/d6e/5c8
From: Pontus Lurcock <pont@talvi.net>
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 07:50:27 +0000

It's now 18 months since the last public update to Java 6 (12 months 
on Mac OS), and I doubt whether any PuffinPlot users are paying for 
Oracle extended support, so I've gone ahead and bumped javac.source
and javac.target to 1.7.

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