Mathieu Baudier ha scritto: > To put it short: I would really analyze closely whether the benefits > of dropping Java 5 support go beyond the "comfort" of some new Java 6 > features, because such a switch is easy to do in a development setting > but can cause a lot of headache when deploying.
Right, being a GeoServer developer I know where your point of view is coming from. My current worry is that by demanding Java 5 we're artificially restricting the set of potential developers. Grabbing a JDK 5 today requires quite some extra jumps in the downloads, and we formally support building only against Java 5, by this meaning Java 6 builds might actually fail (sometime a unit test is stupidly dependent on hash iteration order, though other times there are less obvious issues). Cheers Andrea -- Andrea Aime OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org Expert service straight from the developers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list Geotools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
