Re: Build: jfreeciv FAILED to build

Gary Frederick <gary.frederick-IlQWs/[email protected]> Thu, 13 Dec 2001 10:10:29 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.games.freeciv.java
Organization Jefferson Software
Message-ID <[email protected]>
What would be the impact of going with 1.4 to get things up and dealing 
with backward compatability later?

Gary

Brian Duff wrote:

> wow, I didn't know that: I suppose it's a good thing for Java, but not
> necessarily ideal for us :(
> 
> I still think we should move to 1.4, even at the possible expense of a few
> potential users (er gamers) :). Maybe we should look into web start to make
> it as easy as possible to install jfreeciv (I think web start can download /
> install JREs for you...?)
> 
> Brian
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Artur Biesiadowski" <abies-4Ed1Q4wfwltmR6Xm/[email protected]>
> To: "Brian Duff" <[email protected]>
> Cc: <freeciv-java-0/[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 2:44 PM
> Subject: [FreeCiv-Java] Re: Build: jfreeciv FAILED to build
> 
> 
> 
>>Brian Duff wrote:
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>>>Anyone who wants to use jfreeciv is going to have to be comfortable
>>>installing a JRE. I don't think it matters to people too much which
>>>
> version.
> 
>>There is only one problem. Some of vendors have preinstalled 1.3.1_01
>>with WindowsXP shippings. I don't know how many people this affects, but
>>I'm afraid that 1.3.1_01 can be a next 'standard' like 1.1.4 .
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>>Artur
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