I agree with the points you make - the only thing I could think of was this poll, unless we decided a policy of staying with JDK 1.3 until its so old it doesn't matter.
Niall On 1/23/06, James Carman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Struts is probably your biggest contributor of users, so that's a good sign > for your 1.4 requirement. However, I would still be cautious. Not all > users subscribe to the mailing lists. I would doubt that it's a high > percentage at all. There has to be a standardized way for us to go about > these things. Many of our components could benefit from a jump in minimum > JDK requirement. Is there some sort of "best practice" for this sort of > thing? > -----Original Message----- > From: Niall Pemberton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 7:03 AM > > On 1/23/06, James Carman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Niall, > > > > You are asking the developers list something that really would impact all > of > > the users of Validator. I don't know if I'd feel safe making a decision > > based on what we say. There could be thousands (if not more) of users out > > there using Validator on a 1.3 JVM. Who knows? With Struts relying on > > Validator, you should definitely ask them also (you may have already, > don't > > know). > > I have also posted this to the Commons User and Struts user lists as > well. The other point Struts 1.3 is just about to be released and it > has a JDK 1.4 minimum dependency. > > Niall > > > James --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
