On Sat, 2013-09-14 at 07:52 -0400, Gary Gregory wrote: > On Sep 14, 2013, at 7:23, Oleg Kalnichevski <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 2013-09-13 at 17:25 -0400, Gary Gregory wrote: > >> HttpClient 4.2 and 4.3 requires Java 5. > >> > >> Which components are you talking about? > >> > >> Gary > > > > I think the question is whether or not we should retain 1.5 > > compatibility for the next release series. > > > > I believe that 1.5 compatibility is becoming pointless. It is getting > > increasingly difficult to maintain while hardly helping us expand our > > user base. As far as know there is no even official way of obtaining a > > 1.5 JDK from Oracle. > > > > However having said all that I also have to admit that Java 1.6 does not > > really bring a lot in terms of new features. We probably should also > > consider upgrading straight to Java 1.7 in order to get full try with > > resources support and NIO2. > > > > I suggest that we take this discussion to the user list and start a poll > > on a minimal JRE level for the next release series. > > It seems to me that 4.2.x and 4.3.x should stay on Java 5 and we can > go to 6 or 7 for 4.4. > >
That goes without saying. 4.2 is no longer being actively developed and 4.3 stays Java 1.5 compatible. Oleg > > Oleg > > > >> > >> On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Ryan McKinley <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >>> Now that a release is out, is it worth asking about 1.5 support? > >>> > >>> Obviously we should not change the system requirements unless there is a > >>> clear gain. > >>> > >>> Thoughts? > >>> > >>> ryan > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
