POI 3.10 will support 1.5, I'm about to roll it.

After release we can abandon 1.5 .




On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 8:44 PM, Nick Burch <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sun, 26 Jan 2014, Andreas Beeker wrote:
>
>> I regularly need to workaround limitations in the jdk 1.5 api. Sometimes
>> this is not so straightforward, as with the latest svn commit, which uses
>> NavigableSet features of 1.6.
>>
>
> If you look in the codebase, you'll see a few bits that only work on jdk6,
> but still compile on 5
>
>
>  how about abandon the support for 1.5 and switch to 1.6?
>>
>
> Lack of support from Oracle != lack of use...
>
> Given how close we are to 3.10, it might be too late to declare that 3.10
> is the last 1.5 release, but it isn't impossible. It would need a major
> version change to drop jdk5
>
> Nick
>
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