Thanks! Andreas
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 13:14, Felix Knecht <[email protected]> wrote: > Should be 1.5 again: > > http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1204937&view=rev > > On 11/22/2011 12:50 PM, Andreas Veithen wrote: >> >> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:07, Felix Knecht<[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Andreas >>> >>> Java 1.5 has reached it's EOL already 2 years ago [1]. >> >> Oracle's JDK reached EOL, but Java != Oracle. >> >>> ATM there's not yet a >>> particular reason to need Java 1.6 but it's an invitation to switch to >>> Java >>> 1.6 (which is also already quite mature) >> >> For the Axiom project it would be an invitation to switch to another >> library or to implement its own MIME parsing logic again (we had our >> own code until a couple of months ago, but it became unmaintainable). >> Axiom is used by Axis2 and these type of frameworks tend to be used on >> platforms where people don't necessarily have the freedom to upgrade >> Java to a new version. >> >>> and a preparation for next release >>> of mime4j which may have particular reasons to need at least Java 1.6. >>> The >>> James project in general agreed to move to Java 1.6. >> >> I don't see any issue with James (as a server product) requiring Java >> 1.6, but for libraries produced by the James project and that may be >> used by other projects, you should only require 1.6 if there is a good >> reason. >> >>> >>> Regards >>> Felix >>> >>> [1] http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5/ >>> >>> On 11/22/2011 11:43 AM, Andreas Veithen wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I noticed that since today (I guess since r1204874), mime4j trunk >>>> requires Java 1.6. This makes it unusable for Apache Axiom because we >>>> need to support Java 1.5. Is there a particular reason for this >>>> change? >>>> >>>> Andreas >>>> >>> >>> >> > >
