> -----Original Message----- > From: Ralph Goers [mailto:ralph.go...@dslextreme.com] > Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2009 23:34 > To: Commons Developers List > Subject: Re: [vfs] JDK 1.5 > > > On Nov 8, 2009, at 10:24 PM, Jörg Schaible wrote: > > > Guys, > > > > looking at Ralph's comment in > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VFS-254 > > I am questionning myself, if there's any reason why vfs 2.0 should > > still > > have JDK 1.4 as requirement and not JDK 1.5. VFS 2.0 will be a major > > release and JDK 1.7 is years away to be used for our conservative > > customers. Although we have still some maintenance support for JDK > > 1.4-based apps, they're phasing out and we will definitely not update > > dependencies with major releases. Therefore I'd rather have a VFS > > with more > > modern API (generics) in 2.0 than an "old-fashioned" version 2.0 > > based on > > JDK 1.4 especially if the major release means that API changes too > > much for > > a drop in replacement of 1.1. Thoughts ? > > > > > Actually, there was a poll on the dev list in august and no one > objected to moving to JDK 5. I have no problem with changing the > compile and target versions to Java 5 but I would really like to see > 2.0 released asap. I'm already using it in production and from > comments I've seen I'm pretty sure others are as well. At this point I > think it would be good to keep the changes on 2.0 to a minimum
If the upgrade to Java 5 does not introduce new issues, I say go for it. > > I made changes on the VFS281 branch that require Java 5 as the minimum > version internally but doesn't break compatibility in any other way. I > haven't merged that to trunk because I asked for feedback and got > none. At this point I'm prepared to go out with 2.0 without this and > then consider adding it to whatever the next release is going to be. I like the "release early, release often" XP mantra. If we can get a 2.1 with Java 5 support right behind 2.0, that would be OK with me too. The idea would be to release 2.0 and release 2.1 ASAP just to move development onto a more modern platform. Gary > > To me, the primary concern is getting 2.0 released and there are still > a ton of Jira issues, many with patches, that I haven't had a chance > to look at. I took a stab at applying some easy ones over the last few > days, but there are some that deal with issues findbugs found that > probably should be addressed. > > Ralph > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
