Without trying to advocate for any stance, let me at least try to clarify
the current state of things.
- The release is built with JDK 1.4 and source that is part of the release
is required to be compatible with 1.4. This only affects you if you plan to
contribute code back to the project.
- Given this, you can run on any JDK version 1.4 or higher. For example, I
run my own site on JDK 1.5 and Tomcat 5.5.
- You should be able to develop your own plugins and extensions using JDK
versions greater than 1.4 just fine as long as you then run the entire thing
on equivalent or higher JDK versions. This doesn't require rebuilding or
touching Roller code.
- You should also be able to build and run Roller sources yourself using JDK
1.5 or higher if you want if you do want to modify Roller code.
The present stance is intentionally conservative, giving the greatest
flexibility to users, while putting additional burden on contributors to
write source code that compiles and runs in 1.4.
For my own part, although everything else I am working on now is using Java
1.5 or higher (so personally I'd be fine with stepping up to it) I'm not
sure how many sites we'd be cutting out by requiring it.
--a.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Terry Corbet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 7:14 PM
Subject: Java Version
There is a posting on the developers forum from last September in which
folks
talked about moving to Java 5. For reasons that may be valid within the
Jakarta development environment, the discussion was simply dropped.
Someone, however, indicated that they were able to deploy with a Java 5
runtime.
Of course when I try to provide a CommentAuthenticator, all my development
work left 1.4 at least three years ago, and with the most recent posts
concerning forthcoming Java 7 features it is not even a question of
whether
or not one should be using Java 6 today. If there are compelling reasons
why this project cannot be developed with currently-released SDKs, can
someone please indicate if it is possible to provide plug-ins based on
anything other than the 1.4 JDK?
Acceptance of a fine body of software is being put aside because of this
dependence upon way down-level tools.
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