Owen O'Malley wrote:
Java 1.5 has been out for a couple of years now and has some nice improvements in the libraries. In particular, I wish I had access to the timeout settings on UrlConnections. Would anyone object if starting with the 0.3 release this week, we required java 1.5 to compile and run Hadoop?
Since you contributed a non-Java-1.5 patch for HADOOP-259, let's go ahead and release 0.3 without a Java 1.5 requirement, then start permitting Java 1.5 in changes for 0.4. That way we give folks a bit more notice and a bit more time to object. I doubt we'll hear many objections, but I don't want to surprise folks too much with this kind of change.
Does this sound like a reasonable plan? Doug
