On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:37:41 +0100 Martijn Dashorst <martijn.dasho...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't have a Java 5 JDK anymore on my system. It was removed by > Apple. Java 5 has been marked EOL: which essentially means dead. > deceased. terminated. passed on. ceased to be. expired and gone to > meet 'is maker. a stiff. bereft of life. rests in peace. IT'S AN > EX-JDK! I know that, and I completely agree. I would much rather work on 1.6 than anything older, but currently I can't do that. All I'm saying is that there is a potentially large group of users that won't be able to follow you/us into 1.6-land any time soon. > We don't get paid by any corporation to provide support to wicket. If > your customers want to pay my salary for the next 5 years or so, I'm > happy to work on Wicket full time and maintain obsolete Java code for > them. But they won't. They just get stuff for free... As I said, it's perfectly reasonable for a relatively small team like the Wicket devs to focus on one version. I'm just pointing out things that should be known to make a conscious decision. Carl-Eric -- Carl-Eric Menzel Das neue deutschsprachige Wicketbuch: Wicket: Komponentenbasierte Webanwendungen in Java http://www.wicketbuch.de/
