Re: [configuration] JDK compatibility

2008-02-14 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Hi all, I'm a bit late in this discussion, I'm quite favorable to an upgrade of the minimum JDK required, JDK 1.3 compatibility is really handicapping nowadays. I just hope this doesn't imply designing a new configuration API based on the current code, or this could turn into another cli2 like

Re: [configuration] JDK compatibility

2007-12-18 Thread James Carman
Yes, the configuration2-packaged classes should be part of the 2.x release series. On 12/18/07, Torsten Curdt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> So I will probably follow this road. This is a good opportunity for a > >> refactoring and polishing of some interfaces and base > >> classes. Because > >>

Re: [configuration] JDK compatibility

2007-12-18 Thread Torsten Curdt
So I will probably follow this road. This is a good opportunity for a refactoring and polishing of some interfaces and base classes. Because we will have major changes, changing the package name (maybe to o.a.c.configuration2?) will certainly make sense. I'd go for o.a.c.configuration2 here. s

RE: [configuration] JDK compatibility

2007-12-18 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi Oliver, [snip] Oliver Heger wrote: > This is pretty much the reaction I was hoping for :-) > > So I will probably follow this road. This is a good opportunity for a > refactoring and polishing of some interfaces and base > classes. Because > we will have major changes, changing the package na

Re: [configuration] JDK compatibility

2007-12-16 Thread Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen
Oliver Heger skrev den 13-12-2007 08:16: - Does a switch in the JDK version require a major release? Please keep any changes in environmental requirements to a major release. I for one expect that 1.Y may replace 1.X without any thought. -- Thorbjørn --

Re: [configuration] JDK compatibility

2007-12-14 Thread Oliver Heger
Jörg Schaible wrote: Oliver Heger wrote: (There was a similar discussion about commons lang recently.) Configuration used to support JDK 1.3. For the next release (either 1.6 or 2.0) I would like to drop this compatibility. The number of feature requests that require a newer JDK version is incr

Re: [configuration] JDK compatibility

2007-12-13 Thread Michiel Kalkman
On 12/13/07, Torsten Curdt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 13.12.2007, at 14:38, Michiel Kalkman wrote: > > > +1/-1 > > > > I am all for using jdk 1.5, but I guess it will take some time before > > I can use this jdk at work. Is it possible and easy to generate an 1.4 > > compatible binary versio

Re: [configuration] JDK compatibility

2007-12-13 Thread Torsten Curdt
On 13.12.2007, at 14:38, Michiel Kalkman wrote: +1/-1 I am all for using jdk 1.5, but I guess it will take some time before I can use this jdk at work. Is it possible and easy to generate an 1.4 compatible binary version from 1.5 sources ? If so, I'd say go for it. This comes up all the time

Re: [configuration] JDK compatibility

2007-12-13 Thread Michiel Kalkman
+1/-1 I am all for using jdk 1.5, but I guess it will take some time before I can use this jdk at work. Is it possible and easy to generate an 1.4 compatible binary version from 1.5 sources ? If so, I'd say go for it. Just some additional thoughts (maybe they should be in another thread): - when

Re: [configuration] JDK compatibility

2007-12-13 Thread James Carman
+1. We need to come up with a standardized way of dealing with this though I think. At first I didn't like changing package names, but it does help avoid the "jar hell" issue. On 12/13/07, Mario Ivankovits <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > >> - go for 1.5 > >> - take advantage of generics > > +

Re: [configuration] JDK compatibility

2007-12-13 Thread Niall Pemberton
On Dec 13, 2007 8:42 AM, Jörg Schaible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oliver Heger wrote: > > (There was a similar discussion about commons lang recently.) > > > > Configuration used to support JDK 1.3. For the next release (either > > 1.6 or 2.0) I would like to drop this compatibility. The number >

Re: [configuration] JDK compatibility

2007-12-13 Thread Mario Ivankovits
Hi! >> - go for 1.5 >> - take advantage of generics > +1!!! Frankly speaking this is probably applies to most of commons. > > If commons wants to stay relevant and not become just legacy we also > need to take some steps forward. +1 ... long overdue maybe too long!? Ciao, Mario

RE: [configuration] JDK compatibility

2007-12-13 Thread Simon Kitching
"Jörg Schaible" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Oliver Heger wrote: > > (There was a similar discussion about commons lang recently.) > > > > Configuration used to support JDK 1.3. For the next release (either > > 1.6 or 2.0) I would like to drop this compatibility. The number > > of feature >

Re: [configuration] JDK compatibility

2007-12-13 Thread Torsten Curdt
On 13.12.2007, at 09:42, Jörg Schaible wrote: Oliver Heger wrote: (There was a similar discussion about commons lang recently.) Configuration used to support JDK 1.3. For the next release (either 1.6 or 2.0) I would like to drop this compatibility. The number of feature requests that require

RE: [configuration] JDK compatibility

2007-12-13 Thread Jörg Schaible
Oliver Heger wrote: > (There was a similar discussion about commons lang recently.) > > Configuration used to support JDK 1.3. For the next release (either > 1.6 or 2.0) I would like to drop this compatibility. The number > of feature > requests that require a newer JDK version is increasing. > >

[configuration] JDK compatibility

2007-12-12 Thread Oliver Heger
(There was a similar discussion about commons lang recently.) Configuration used to support JDK 1.3. For the next release (either 1.6 or 2.0) I would like to drop this compatibility. The number of feature requests that require a newer JDK version is increasing. This raises a couple of questio