Advanced Machines IC2 Java7

[teejay00]

Any reason that the modder for the advanced machines ic2 desided to use java7?

Java7 in some cases has too many security holes for some hosting sites to risk, like Multiplay forinstance.

Rest of minecraft and the pack is running on java5 aperently.

[Arkalius]

Java7 in some cases has too many security holes

[citation needed]

[caspertheghost]

Any reason that the modder for the advanced machines ic2 desided to use java7?

Java7 in some cases has too many security holes for some hosting sites to risk, like Multiplay forinstance.

Rest of minecraft and the pack is running on java5 aperently.

AtomicStryker doesnt have java 6 installed on his computer.

Edit: Derp, he doesnt have java 6 installed, only java 7. My bad.

[jakj]

Actually, Minecraft is built on Java 6, according to the MD5sums generated by MCP. (To demonstrate, when you reobfuscate a mod without changing the default "-source 1.6" argument, it reobfuscates only your mod, but if you remove that (so it defaults to 7), it reobfuscates every base class in addition. They still work fine, but they require 7.)

Honestly, 7 has some improvements that are really too good to do without, such as diamond notation and try-with-resources. It makes sense for Minecraft itself to not require 7 (because it is technically a development version), but individuals can make the choice easily enough (since the choice to use a mod or modpack is yours).