[desktop-discuss] Java tools runtime require 1.6?

[Alan Coopersmith]

John Pritchard wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> As a java.dev it's so very inconvenient that desktop utilities like the audio control require the JRE 1.6.  
> 
> It's very likely that these things don't require 1.6 (in sources).  If these projects could be compiled for the lowest possible target, that really would be very sensible.

Nothing in JDS should be built to require JRE 1.6, as the
Solaris policy is to build for the oldest JRE bundled in the
release, which is still 1.5 for Nevada.   Anything that does
require 1.6 is a bug.

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	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering