On 22 February 2014 22:00, Baptiste Mathus <[email protected]> wrote: > +1 to dump Java5 compat. In about 2 months, even Java 6 will rapidly become > old. We're already using Java 1.7 at our shop, and plan to migrate to 1.8 > asap. And we're really not a startup kind of company ;-). And I'm sure the > features in 1.8 (compared to the ones in the previous version) is gonna > accelerate the move. Sure you'll always companies where migration is said > to be hard, but any move being made would be considered hard to absorb by > those anyway... :) > > Stephen, when talking about version policy in the current context, do you > mean something like "any plugin could from now on be released with 1.6+ > requirement, you would just have to make sure to bump the MAJOR (or only > minor?) version number to acknowledge the change" ? >
Well I think that a MINOR bump suffices... but perhaps we should doc it. FWIW I would be happy to say that any JVM which is more than 12 months since being declared EOL by Oracle is one that we don't bother with... has the side effect that our next minor version can require Java 7 as a minimum... but we are now OT > > > 2014-02-22 21:26 GMT+01:00 Stephen Connolly < > [email protected] > >: > > > If a plugin depends on Maven 2.2.1 through 3.1.1 then we are stuck with > > Java 1.5 > > > > Hence my version policy that you lot are all ignoring commenting on... No > > comments means I'll just put it up for a vote ;-) > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > > > On 22 Feb 2014, at 20:10, "Arnaud Héritier" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > ;) AFAIR for core yes. New releases (thus 3.2) should be certified 1.6+ > > > > > > > > > For plugins it's another story I suppose depending of the version of > > maven core they are supposed to support.. > > > -- > > > Sent from Mailbox for iPhone > > > > > >> On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 9:04 PM, Jason van Zyl <[email protected]> > wrote: > > >> > > >> Didn't we decide that everything can be 1.6? I remember because it was > > one of Stephen's overly long emails :-) > > >> jvz > > >>> On Feb 22, 2014, at 11:02 AM, Benson Margulies < > [email protected]> > > wrote: > > >>> > > >>> How much longer with this Java 1.5 business? It' a giant pain. > > >>> > > >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >>> 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] > > > > -- > > Baptiste <Batmat> MATHUS - http://batmat.net > > Sauvez un arbre, > > Mangez un castor ! nbsp;! <[email protected]> > > >
