Re: [VOTE][Lang] Update to Java 6

2012-02-29 Thread James Carman
So you're -0? On Feb 29, 2012 3:38 PM, "sebb" wrote: > On 29 February 2012 20:34, Oliver Heger > wrote: > > -0 > > > > I can understand that we all are keen to work with the latest and > greatest > > technology. Therefore, if we really needed a feature of a newer JDK, I > would > > certainly be

Re: [VOTE][Lang] Update to Java 6

2012-02-29 Thread sebb
On 29 February 2012 20:34, Oliver Heger wrote: > -0 > > I can understand that we all are keen to work with the latest and greatest > technology. Therefore, if we really needed a feature of a newer JDK, I would > certainly be +1. > > Given the functionality we provide in [lang] and the JDK classes

Re: [VOTE][Lang] Update to Java 6

2012-02-29 Thread Oliver Heger
-0 I can understand that we all are keen to work with the latest and greatest technology. Therefore, if we really needed a feature of a newer JDK, I would certainly be +1. Given the functionality we provide in [lang] and the JDK classes we use, IMHO the minor differences between JDK 1.6 and

Re: [VOTE][Lang] Update to Java 6

2012-02-28 Thread Christian Grobmeier
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 1:37 PM, sebb wrote: > On 27 February 2012 23:08, Christian Grobmeier wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 11:53 PM, sebb wrote: >>> On 27 February 2012 21:16, Gary Gregory wrote: Hello All: This VOTE is to update the platform requirement for Commons Lang tru

Re: [VOTE][Lang] Update to Java 6

2012-02-28 Thread sebb
On 27 February 2012 23:08, Christian Grobmeier wrote: > On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 11:53 PM, sebb wrote: >> On 27 February 2012 21:16, Gary Gregory wrote: >>> Hello All: >>> >>> This VOTE is to update the platform requirement for Commons Lang trunk to >>> Java 6 from Java 5. >>> >>> The reasons are

Re: [VOTE][Lang] Update to Java 6

2012-02-27 Thread Christian Grobmeier
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 11:53 PM, sebb wrote: > On 27 February 2012 21:16, Gary Gregory wrote: >> Hello All: >> >> This VOTE is to update the platform requirement for Commons Lang trunk to >> Java 6 from Java 5. >> >> The reasons are: >> >> - Stop wasting time back porting code contributions from

Re: [VOTE][Lang] Update to Java 6

2012-02-27 Thread Dave Brosius
+1 - Original Message -From: "Gary Gregory" >;ggreg...@apache.org;http://twitter.com/GaryGregory

Re: [VOTE][Lang] Update to Java 6

2012-02-27 Thread Simone Tripodi
volunteers maintaining [lang] have to work in the more comfortable conditions they need - if keeping the Java5 backward compatibility became more a pain than something to enjoy in their spare time, there's no reason to continue getting crazy with the risk they lose the interest - and [lang] won't b