On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 09:56:41 -0500, David Durham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > James Mitchell wrote: > > > That would be a bad mistake. How many products do you know that have a 1.5 > > minimum requirement? > > If we're talking about Struts 2.0, it's not actually a product yet, so > it's purely speculation. >
The beehive folks did exactly this (base their code on JDK 5.0) so that they could take advantage of annotations, generics, and all that in their API designs. Looking at their code sure makes me jealous :-). And, they did it based on the same reasoning I proposed -- by the time we're *done*, JDK 5.0 will be widely deployed. And, in the mean time, a branch continuing the development of Struts 1.2.x (or perhaps 1.3.x) is certainly appropriate, since it is the mature version of the product that is better off being stable and backlwards compatible. (This parallel universes split is exactly what happened with the Apache HTTPD project, using exactly the 1.3 and 2.0 version number sequences :-). > I'm not saying move the 1.x branch to 1.5. I'm not even saying that you > *should* move the 2.0 branch to 1.5. I just thought I would put it out > there as a thought. > It's more than a thought ... I was about three keystrokes from including this in my proposal to be forward looking on servlet 2.4 and JSP 2.0 :-). > > > > - Dave Craig --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
