On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Derek Chen-Becker <dchenbec...@gmail.com>wrote:
> My main concern is that after October 30, Java 5 costs money (I'm guessing > not a trivial amount, either). I can get the JDK right now, but if some bug > in the Java libraries pops up that would prevent things from working, I > don't know how we'll work around that. > It's rather simple, supply and demand, if there's a demand for us to keep Java5 compatibility, we'll need to see what we can do to fulfill that need, and if that costs money, then the demandees will need to open the wallets. > > Derek > > > On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 12:29 PM, David Pollak < > feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Derek Chen-Becker < >> dchenbec...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I was just about to work on issue #67 (build breaks on Java 5), but when >>> I went to get a Java 5 JDK to compile/test with, Sun says that it's EOL as >>> of October 30, 2009. I don't have a problem fixing things to work with Java >>> 5, but I don't want to do work that's going to be tossed out in a month. >>> >>> >> Lift will be JDK 1.5 compatible for at least 1 year (and probably longer). >> LinkedIn and SAP are both 1.5 shops. There are tons of other Bay Area >> companies (Wells Fargo, Kaiser, etc.) that are also 1.5 shops. For the next >> 2-3 years, OS X 10.5 will be common and 10.5 + old MacBooks == 1.5. >> >> It will not be lost work. >> >> >>> Derek >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Lift, the simply functional web framework http://liftweb.net >> Beginning Scala http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890 >> Follow me: http://twitter.com/dpp >> Surf the harmonics >> >> >> >> > > > > -- Viktor Klang Blog: klangism.blogspot.com Twttr: viktorklang Lift Committer - liftweb.com AKKA Committer - akkasource.org Cassidy - github.com/viktorklang/Cassidy.git SoftPub founder: http://groups.google.com/group/softpub --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to liftweb@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
