On 16 July 2013 21:52, Kristian Rosenvold <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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 ? > Until Jenkins gets upgraded to 1.520+ at which point the (crappy in my personal view) Maven job type will be unable to run 1.5 Can still keep trucking with a FreeStyle + Maven Build Step though (and I prefer that way anyway) -Stephen > > 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] > >
