[Freecol-developers] Java 7

[Michael T. Pope]

With the long delayed 0.11.0 release finally out the door, it is time to
start edging towards requiring Java 7 for FreeCol. There is a bit of work
to do there (much of which is annotated with "FIXME in Java 7", although
there are bound to be omissions), so I doubt this will be quick. What can
definitely happen from here is for there to be no more sub-Java-7
code added.

Cheers,
Mike Pope

[Jonas Stumph Stevnsvig]

Hi devs.

I've been following the discussion on the list, but not committing myself due to a lot of other commitments, but would it be a help to you to do some test build of the codes against JDK 7 solely as "fuzz" testing?
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Post by Michael T. Pope
With the long delayed 0.11.0 release finally out the door, it is time to
start edging towards requiring Java 7 for FreeCol. There is a bit of work
to do there (much of which is annotated with "FIXME in Java 7", although
there are bound to be omissions), so I doubt this will be quick. What can
definitely happen from here is for there to be no more sub-Java-7
code added.
Cheers,
Mike Pope
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[Michael T. Pope]

On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 11:08:59 GMT

Post by Jonas Stumph Stevnsvig
I've been following the discussion on the list, but not committing myself due to a lot of other commitments, but would it be a help to you to do some test build of the codes against JDK 7 solely as "fuzz" testing?

No and yes. I have been using JDK 7 for ages, albeit in
1.6/6-compatibility mode, so the JDK itself is unlikely to be a big
problem. However I could be wrong, and a full Java 7 test could be
interesting.

Cheers,
Mike Pope

[Michael T. Pope]

On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 21:30:16 +1030

Post by Michael T. Pope
With the long delayed 0.11.0 release finally out the door, it is time to
start edging towards requiring Java 7 for FreeCol.

This turned out to not be that painful. I fixed a bunch of places where
types were poorly specified, and left four really tricky cases. With that
done, switching to Java 7 only kicked up two warnings, which were false
positives. So as of git.52dad7a, FreeCol now requires Java 7 to build...
and if it all starts failing now, that might be the problem:-).

Cheers,
Mike Pope