Launchpad 7.4.1 jar on 7.3.2 ?

Andy Knipp

Curious if anyone was stupid enough to try this.

We have 7.3.2 on Solaris. Customers all over the world with corporate restrictions on Java. Many cannot use 1.6 (which is supported by 732).

1.7 JRE *mostly* works, except when you import sometime the scrollbar takes up the complete scroll window and thus you can only get a part of the directory you are looking at. It is intermittent, working on some directories and not others. The issue does not exist on JRE 1.6

7.4.1 supports 1.7 and the scrollbar works as advertised.

Interestingly enough I took a dev server, copied the launchpad.jar from the 741 install and replaced the 732 version. Launchpad seems to function correctly and the bug is gone.

I know this is a horrid idea and I am an idiot for contemplating it, but has anyone else tried it ? If so results ?

The upgrade from 7.2.1 to 7.3.2 was quite painful (this server started originally on TS 4.0) so there is little appetite for a move to 7.4.1

I will post later for those of you who like to watch a train wreck.