Re: [ALL] Switch to JDK 1.4 in a minor release - was: [configuration] Minimum required JDK version

2009-12-26 Thread Oliver Heger
Thanks. So it seems we all agree :-) Oliver Henri Yandell schrieb: Seems fine to me. On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Oliver Heger wrote: Thanks for the feedback so far. However, before taking concrete actions I would like to put the question again in a broader scope. The question is: Is

Re: [ALL] Switch to JDK 1.4 in a minor release - was: [configuration] Minimum required JDK version

2009-12-25 Thread Luc Maisonobe
Oliver Heger a écrit : > Thanks for the feedback so far. However, before taking concrete actions > I would like to put the question again in a broader scope. > > The question is: Is it okay for a component to change its minimum > required JDK from 1.3 to 1.4 in a minor release? I think it is OK.

RE: [ALL] Switch to JDK 1.4 in a minor release - was: [configuration] Minimum required JDK version

2009-12-24 Thread Gary Gregory
heger.de] > Sent: Thursday, December 24, 2009 11:37 > To: dev@commons.apache.org > Subject: [ALL] Switch to JDK 1.4 in a minor release - was: > [configuration] Minimum required JDK version > > Thanks for the feedback so far. However, before taking concrete actions > I would like t

Re: [ALL] Switch to JDK 1.4 in a minor release - was: [configuration] Minimum required JDK version

2009-12-24 Thread Henri Yandell
Seems fine to me. On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Oliver Heger wrote: > Thanks for the feedback so far. However, before taking concrete actions I > would like to put the question again in a broader scope. > > The question is: Is it okay for a component to change its minimum required > JDK from

Re: [ALL] Switch to JDK 1.4 in a minor release - was: [configuration] Minimum required JDK version

2009-12-24 Thread Phil Steitz
Oliver Heger wrote: > Thanks for the feedback so far. However, before taking concrete actions > I would like to put the question again in a broader scope. > > The question is: Is it okay for a component to change its minimum > required JDK from 1.3 to 1.4 in a minor release? We are about to do th

[ALL] Switch to JDK 1.4 in a minor release - was: [configuration] Minimum required JDK version

2009-12-24 Thread Oliver Heger
Thanks for the feedback so far. However, before taking concrete actions I would like to put the question again in a broader scope. The question is: Is it okay for a component to change its minimum required JDK from 1.3 to 1.4 in a minor release? I just want to make sure that there are no veto

Re: [configuration] Minimum required JDK version

2009-12-23 Thread Jörg Schaible
Oliver Heger wrote: > Currently the 1.x version of [configuration] requires JDK 1.3. I wonder > whether it makes sense to switch to JDK 1.4 instead. > > I used to think that a switch of the minimum JDK version was only > possible for a major release. However, JDK 1.3 reached its EOL so long > ago

Re: [configuration] Minimum required JDK version

2009-12-21 Thread Ralph Goers
Not by me. Ralph On Dec 21, 2009, at 12:32 PM, Oliver Heger wrote: > Currently the 1.x version of [configuration] requires JDK 1.3. I wonder > whether it makes sense to switch to JDK 1.4 instead. > > I used to think that a switch of the minimum JDK version was only possible > for a major rel

[configuration] Minimum required JDK version

2009-12-21 Thread Oliver Heger
Currently the 1.x version of [configuration] requires JDK 1.3. I wonder whether it makes sense to switch to JDK 1.4 instead. I used to think that a switch of the minimum JDK version was only possible for a major release. However, JDK 1.3 reached its EOL so long ago that this should not be an i