Hi! I tried bringing up this issue more than once, thus I was very happy that somebody else feels the same.
In 0.12 we had a contribution that added a Gradle plugin. It failed due to insufficient dependencies with JDK5. Thus there's a need to update .... if we want to stay relevant. If we are happy with some rather old users with Ant and JD5 - ok, but to my mind we should add Gradle support to stay relevant in the ASF sphere. Just my 2 ct Phil Am 11.09.2016 um 14:56 schrieb Sebb (JIRA): > > [ > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RAT-220?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=15481714#comment-15481714 > ] > > Sebb commented on RAT-220: > -------------------------- > > +1 > > We should not change the Java version merely to be consistent with other > Creadur projects. > > There needs to be a clear end-user benefit to requiring the upgrade. > >> JDK version 1.6 >> --------------- >> >> Key: RAT-220 >> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RAT-220 >> Project: Apache Rat >> Issue Type: Improvement >> Reporter: Karl Heinz Marbaise >> Assignee: Jochen Wiedmann >> >> Currently the RAT project defines as Java compatibility 1.5 but Tentacles >> defines 1.6 and Whiskers as well 1.6 so it would be a good idea to go to 1.6 >> as minimum....If someone needs to work with 1.5 toolchain can be used. > > > > -- > This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA > (v6.3.4#6332) >
