Is LibreOffice dependency on Java 1.6 still valid?

[Craig Rodrigues]

On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 9:44 AM, Bruce Albrecht <bruce at freebsd.zuhause.org>
wrote:

> As far as I can tell, LibreOffice on other platforms has supported Java
> 1.7+ since the LibreOffice 3.6 release (or maybe earlier), and
> OpenOffice supports Java 1.7+ also.  Why does the FreeBSD port require
> Java 1.6 for building when the Java option is set?
>

Probably no one tried it yet.  Changing a libreoffice build dependency is a
big
job to validate.
My advice would be to open an account on http://www.redports.org, and submit
a patch changing editors/libreoffice/Makefile to either change
JAVA_VERSION to 1.7+, and see if it passes a redports build.

--
Craig