It occurs more often that our desired dependencies require JDK 6. We've taken great care on the 2.1.x and 2.2.x lines to ensure JDK 5 compatibility, if we drop this requirement on 2.3.x branch then it opens more opportunities to make things easier in transition to the Karaf 3.0 (JDK 6 minimum) code base.
Cheers, Jamie On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 7:49 PM, Guillaume Nodet <gno...@gmail.com> wrote: > Not sure if forcing 1.6 is really required. Does that bring any value ? > Another way is does that even change anything for us ? > > On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 15:16, Jamie G. <jamie.goody...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> The concept of a 2.3.x branch to bridge the differences between 2.2.x >> and the to be 3.0.0 makes sense from the point of view of providing >> our user base an easier transition. I would like to know if we intend >> to keep JDK 1.5 compatibility on 2.3.x or if we'll have to enforce an >> update to JDK 1.6? >> >> Cheers, >> Jamie >> >> On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 7:24 PM, Jean-Baptiste Onofré <j...@nanthrax.net> >> wrote: >> > Hi all, >> > >> > we started to perform a bunch of changes on the Karaf trunk (future Karaf >> > 3.0 branch): refactoring on the commands to introduce the sub-shell, >> update >> > to Pax Web 2.0 and Jetty 8, renaming on the commands, new OSGi release, >> new >> > Aries version, etc. >> > >> > It means a huge change for the users. >> > >> > As our Karaf 2.2.x branch is our current stable branch, Guillaume and I >> > discussed the creation of a Karaf 2.3.x branch (waiting the 3.0 release). >> > >> > This branch will include "minor" new features and dependencies upgrade. >> > >> > Especially, I think it could be interesting to do on this branch: >> > - new OSGi release and framework update >> > - Aries update >> > - scp support and others minor new features >> > >> > WDYT ? >> > >> > Thanks >> > Regards >> > JB >> > -- >> > Jean-Baptiste Onofré >> > jbono...@apache.org >> > http://blog.nanthrax.net >> > Talend - http://www.talend.com >> > >> > > > > -- > ------------------------ > Guillaume Nodet > ------------------------ > Blog: http://gnodet.blogspot.com/ > ------------------------ > Open Source SOA > http://fusesource.com >
