As long as surefire can fork down to 1.5 and as long as tool chains can compile with 1.5, the only issue I can see is if the development environments where these older JVMs are running do not have newer JDKs available also.
This is the same issue we face in the Jenkins project, were we are (considering/are - I would need to check the most recent decision) dropping JDK 5.0. But you do raise a valid point about other Java vendors than Oracle On Tuesday, 16 July 2013, Chris Graham wrote: > On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Arnaud Héritier > <[email protected]<javascript:;> > >wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Java 6 EOL was in feb and Maven and its plugins are always compatible > > > > Oracle Java 6 was EOL'd. > > IBM Java 6 was, and is not due to be for a few more years. They even > *extended* 1.5's life for a year. Sept this year, I think. > > -Chris > -- Sent from my phone
