Hmm... I understand this is one of the major differences between a commercial product - where we put the customer first - and open-source products - where we develop things for pleasure and thus want to use the fun stuff as well.. /Tonny
-- Tonny Madsen My profiles: [image: LinkedIn] <http://www.linkedin.com/in/tonnymadsen> [image: Twitter] <http://twitter.com/tonnymadsen> [image: Blogger]<http://tonnymadsen.blogspot.dk/> [image: SlideShare] <http://www.slideshare.net/nonty> On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 10:16 PM, Igor Fedorenko <[email protected]>wrote: > We obviously want to avoid "alienating significant part of m2e users", > and this is exactly why I asked the question instead of just making the > change. > > I fully realize some users will not be able to upgrade their java > version and will have to stay on an older version of m2e. Problem is, we > don't have any data to judge what proportion of users will and will not > be able to upgrade because of java version. > > Also, I honestly believe that my productivity and productivity of other > m2e developers and contributors is more important for m2e project than > costs savings "IT department of a large bank" might get by sticking to > an old java version. > > -- > Regards, > Igor > > > On 2013-05-30 2:59 PM, Tonny Madsen wrote: > >> Igor, >> >> You write: "Does anyone have a good reasons to stay with java 6 past >> this coming >> June? ("my IT department is too retarded to allow java7" is probably not >> a good reason)." >> >> I don't know if you ever worked in the IT department of a large bank, >> offshore consultancy company or a similar institution, but... these >> organizations want to control the amount of support and maintenance by >> locking down the used platforms. "Retarded"??? I'm pretty sure most IT >> people would make the same choices given the available resources in the >> IT departments! >> >> Java 7 might make your life easier, but is that really reason enough to >> alienate an insignificant part of your users? >> >> /Tonny >> >> -- >> Tonny Madsen >> My profiles: LinkedIn >> <http://www.linkedin.com/in/**tonnymadsen<http://www.linkedin.com/in/tonnymadsen>> >> Twitter >> <http://twitter.com/**tonnymadsen <http://twitter.com/tonnymadsen>> >> Blogger >> <http://tonnymadsen.blogspot.**dk/ <http://tonnymadsen.blogspot.dk/>> >> SlideShare >> <http://www.slideshare.net/**nonty <http://www.slideshare.net/nonty>> >> >> >> >> On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 4:10 AM, Igor Fedorenko <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> I'd like to propose moving m2e to require java7 execution environment >> after Kepler SR0 is out. I am getting really addicted to >> try-with-resources syntax [1], and with java6 past it's eol [2] >> already, >> I see little/no reasons to stick with this version any longer. >> >> Does anyone have a good reasons to stay with java 6 past this coming >> June? ("my IT department is too retarded to allow java7" is probably >> not >> a good reason). >> >> [1] >> http://docs.oracle.com/javase/**__tutorial/essential/** >> exceptions/__tryResourceClose.**html<http://docs.oracle.com/javase/__tutorial/essential/exceptions/__tryResourceClose.html> >> <http://docs.oracle.com/**javase/tutorial/essential/** >> exceptions/tryResourceClose.**html<http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/exceptions/tryResourceClose.html> >> > >> [2] >> http://www.oracle.com/__**technetwork/java/eol-135779.__**html<http://www.oracle.com/__technetwork/java/eol-135779.__html> >> >> >> <http://www.oracle.com/**technetwork/java/eol-135779.**html<http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html> >> > >> >> -- >> Regards, >> Igor >> ______________________________**___________________ >> m2e-users mailing list >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> >> https://dev.eclipse.org/__**mailman/listinfo/m2e-users<https://dev.eclipse.org/__mailman/listinfo/m2e-users> >> >> <https://dev.eclipse.org/**mailman/listinfo/m2e-users<https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/m2e-users> >> > >> >> >> >> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> m2e-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://dev.eclipse.org/**mailman/listinfo/m2e-users<https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/m2e-users> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ > m2e-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://dev.eclipse.org/**mailman/listinfo/m2e-users<https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/m2e-users> >
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