On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Benjamin Bentmann <
benjamin.bentm...@udo.edu> wrote:

> Daniel Kulp wrote:
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>  On Fri May 15 2009 12:18:59 pm Brian Fox wrote:
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>>> I don't think we should go out of our way yet to convert everything to
>>> java5, preserving 1.4 compatibility (essentially 2.0/2.1 compatibility)
>>> should be considered. However if there's a reason, like the checkstyle
>>> update requies java 5, then we should do it and set a prerequisite of
>>> maven
>>> 2.2.0.
>>>
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>> I don't think setting a prerequisite of 2.2.0 is a good idea.   If the
>> plugin will work with 2.0.10 + java 5, then I think we should allow that.
>>
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> I agree with Dan, the prerequisite on a specific Maven version and a Java
> version are two different things. Users can fairly well run plugins
> targetting Java 1.5 with a core targetting 1.4.


+1

Stéphane

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