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 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
