Look you chickens; until quite recently I kept a 1.3 JVM running on windows to do the occasional test of surefire on jdk 1.3. (I kept a vmware image since installing 1.3 on linux required surrendering your first born to Sauron) All your complaining about not being able to run 1.5 sounds like childish whining.
On a more serious note, since we support all relevant new features in 1.6 & 1.7 already, the only real reason to move away from 1.5 (for me) is to get the improved generics notations of 1.7. 1.6 was about as boring a release as Sun ever managed to make. So it would seem to me like animal-sniffer at 1.5 level is the way to go until we can decide to move directly to 1.7? It would seem to me like we'll just have to rely on this kind of sniffing ? I still think 1.7 is at least a year away..? Most of plexus already has a java 7 compile time requirement right now, which means we can avoid using reflection for all kinds of stupid stuff. But since most of that is handled, we only really have the diamond notation left ? I don't think there's much to be gained by introducing a 1.7 library level for the rest of maven ? I'm looking for use cases outside what animal sniffer should be able to handle for us here? Jenkins also does a fairly nice JDK 1.5 test for most of our projects ? Kristian 16. juli 2013 kl. 02:07 skrev Arnaud Héritier <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > Java 6 EOL was in feb and Maven and its plugins are always compatible > with Java 5 (And probably various plugins with Java 4). > Couldn't it be interesting to see which JDKs our users are using to see > how we can schedule the end of support of Java 5 (and more). Perhaps a > removal of Java 5 support in 3.2 or 3.5 ... > Perhaps with a survey like this : > https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Jqxq2KgSricwS7YV7pmWvHA8m7_TE7c8JhusugPmGW4/viewform > What do you think ? > Useful ? Useless ?he > > > ----- > Arnaud Héritier > http://aheritier.net > Mail/GTalk: aheritier AT gmail DOT com > Twitter/Skype : aheritier --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
