Hi Manfred, This was tracked in MPMD-182 in JIRA. There were a bunch of changes that were needed for this, see http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1610933
I plan to make changes to our parents so that changing Java version is as simple as overriding one or two properties. Also, I added info on the front page of the plugin site that it requires Java 6. On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 2:06 AM, Manfred Moser <[email protected]> wrote: > How did you end up handling the java 6 requirement? > > manfred > > Dennis Lundberg wrote on 28.07.2014 15:04: > >> Hi, >> >> This is a Java 8 compatibility release. This release is needed to be >> able to use Maven PMD Plugin on Java 8 sources. This involved >> upgrading to PMD 5.1+ which in turn requires at least Java 6. So the >> plugin now requires Java 6 to run and is able to work on Java 8 >> sources. >> >> We solved 2 issues: >> http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=11140&styleName=Html&version=20123 >> >> There are still a couple of issues left in JIRA: >> http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&pid=11140&status=1 >> >> Staging repo: >> https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/maven-1043 >> https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/maven-1043/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-pmd-plugin/3.2/maven-pmd-plugin-3.2-source-release.zip >> >> Source release checksum(s): >> maven-pmd-plugin-3.2-source-release.zip sha1: >> 13337e181bdba0cd72dd73d50d78a0b360856934 >> >> Staging site: >> http://maven.apache.org/plugins-archives/maven-pmd-plugin-LATEST/ >> >> Guide to testing staged releases: >> http://maven.apache.org/guides/development/guide-testing-releases.html >> >> Vote open for 72 hours. >> >> [ ] +1 >> [ ] +0 >> [ ] -1 >> >> >> -- >> Dennis Lundberg >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > -- Dennis Lundberg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
