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Re: Java 8 and Windows XP?

From	Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: Java 8 and Windows XP?
Date	2014-06-22 04:04 -0700
Organization	Canadian Mind Products
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On Wed, 18 Jun 2014 07:40:26 -0700, Knute Johnson
<eternal@knutejohnson.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone
who said :

>7 installs fine but I was hoping to get everybody up to 8.  The code 
>doesn't use any features of 8 so I just compiled with 8 and used target 
>and source 7.  That should work shouldn't it?

Target does not stop you from using new 1.8 methods. To be fully sure
you must compile with the 1.7 libraries or with the 1.7 JDK.
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Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products http://mindprod.com
Why program by hand in 5 days what you can spend
2 to 5 years of your life automating.
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Java 8 and Windows XP? Knute Johnson <eternal@knutejohnson.com> - 2014-06-18 07:40 -0700
  Re: Java 8 and Windows XP? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2014-06-18 11:43 -0400
    Re: Java 8 and Windows XP? Knute Johnson <eternal@knutejohnson.com> - 2014-06-18 09:23 -0700
      Re: Java 8 and Windows XP? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2014-06-18 13:34 -0400
  Re: Java 8 and Windows XP? "Qu0ll" <Qu0llSixFour@gmail.com> - 2014-06-19 08:31 +1000
    Re: Java 8 and Windows XP? Knute Johnson <eternal@knutejohnson.com> - 2014-06-18 16:02 -0700
      Re: Java 8 and Windows XP? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2014-06-21 23:16 -0400
  Re: Java 8 and Windows XP? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2014-06-22 04:04 -0700

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