http://people.apache.org/~simonetripodi/ http://simonetripodi.livejournal.com/ http://twitter.com/simonetripodi http://www.99soft.org/
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 4:43 PM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 5 December 2011 15:06, Simone Tripodi <simonetrip...@apache.org> wrote: >> Salut Henri, >> >> if you need the Java6 APIs to provide a fresh new set of APIs to JEXL >> users, I would be +1. >> We recently accepted Java6 in Apache Cocoon since Oracle announced >> Java 5 SE EOL (End Of Life) since 2009. > > Cocoon is a slightly different case, as it's probably not embedded in > other components as much as Commons components are. > nope, new Cocoon3 has small commons components as well that allow users embed it in a commons-xxx style, take a look at Christian's experience on his blog post[1] >> Anyway I would to point you to a message in the ASF Tika ML[1] where >> describing the pros and cons about moving to Java6 - I wonder how many >> users would still require Java4/5 to run JEXL. > > Exactly - but I'm not sure we'll find that out by asking on the > developer list, where one would expect people to install the new > versions of Java as they come out. > > If the argument is that Jexl users don't need it to run on Java 1.5, > then a better place to ask the question might be the user list. > agreed, but I guess HenriB concern is on dev side as well, the implicit question sounds clear to me: "is there any objection in the dev community?" -Simo [1] http://www.grobmeier.de/create-pdf-cocoon-3-struts-2-15112011.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
