What Java version to compile for?

[Jon Harman-3]

Hi,
For some time I have been compiling my plugin using my javac compiler with
-source 1.4 -target 1.4
This was out of my fear that some people might have old versions of
Java.  (I think this was true of some Macs). Is this fear justified?
Should I update this to maybe 1.6?

Jon

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[Michael Doube-4]

Hi Jon,

> For some time I have been compiling my plugin using my javac compiler
> with -source 1.4 -target 1.4 This was out of my fear that some people
> might have old versions of Java.  (I think this was true of some
> Macs). Is this fear justified? Should I update this to maybe 1.6?

I'm compiling for 1.5 and only very rarely log any uses with this
version. Nearly all users are running 1.6 or 1.7, and it seems that 1.7
is pretty buggy, at least for me on Linux.

1.5 would be the conservative approach, 1.6 would get almost everyone
(except some older Macs, e.g. PPC MacBooks stuck on Mac OS X 10.5.8,
which can't update Java past 1.5).

Michael
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