Re: [jira] [Commented] (RAT-220) JDK version 1.6

2016-09-12 Thread Karl Heinz Marbaise
Hi, On 11/09/16 23:43, P. Ottlinger wrote: Hi, Am 11.09.2016 um 23:03 schrieb Karl Heinz Marbaise: So that was my suggestion to increase the minimum JDK versions which is needed to run/build RAT/Tentacles/Whiskers to JDK 6...make at least one release and move forward to JDK 7 make another

Re: [jira] [Commented] (RAT-220) JDK version 1.6

2016-09-11 Thread Karl Heinz Marbaise
Hi, On 11/09/16 23:03, Karl Heinz Marbaise wrote: Hi, On 11/09/16 20:59, Javen O'Neal wrote: While increasing the minimum supported version does cut out some users who are running ancient versions of Java, To be honest 1.5 Java is out of date how long? Furthermore no security updates etc.

Re: [jira] [Commented] (RAT-220) JDK version 1.6

2016-09-11 Thread Karl Heinz Marbaise
Hi, On 11/09/16 20:59, Javen O'Neal wrote: While increasing the minimum supported version does cut out some users who are running ancient versions of Java, To be honest 1.5 Java is out of date how long? Furthermore no security updates etc. and no enterprise contracts possible anymore...for

Re: [jira] [Commented] (RAT-220) JDK version 1.6

2016-09-11 Thread P. Ottlinger
Hi, Am 11.09.2016 um 20:53 schrieb Jochen Wiedmann: > There is no reason, to retreat the plugin, as long as it becomes a > standalone module. To follow your argumentation: Ant and Maven-module should be standalone as well. I think that's rather hard and makes things even more complicated as

Re: [jira] [Commented] (RAT-220) JDK version 1.6

2016-09-11 Thread P. Ottlinger
Hi! I tried bringing up this issue more than once, thus I was very happy that somebody else feels the same. In 0.12 we had a contribution that added a Gradle plugin. It failed due to insufficient dependencies with JDK5. Thus there's a need to update if we want to stay relevant. If we are

[jira] [Commented] (RAT-220) JDK version 1.6

2016-09-11 Thread Sebb (JIRA)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RAT-220?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel=15481714#comment-15481714 ] Sebb commented on RAT-220: -- +1 We should not change the Java version merely to be consistent with other Creadur

[jira] [Commented] (RAT-220) JDK version 1.6

2016-09-11 Thread Karl Heinz Marbaise (JIRA)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RAT-220?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel=15481517#comment-15481517 ] Karl Heinz Marbaise commented on RAT-220: - It's just a clear consistent line. May be it bothers at

[jira] [Commented] (RAT-220) JDK version 1.6

2016-09-11 Thread Jochen Wiedmann (JIRA)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RAT-220?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel=15481510#comment-15481510 ] Jochen Wiedmann commented on RAT-220: - Well, what is the paint point? Who's bothered, right now? > JDK

[jira] [Commented] (RAT-220) JDK version 1.6

2016-09-11 Thread Karl Heinz Marbaise (JIRA)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RAT-220?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel=15481409#comment-15481409 ] Karl Heinz Marbaise commented on RAT-220: - My point was to be consistent over the projects RAT,

[jira] [Commented] (RAT-220) JDK version 1.6

2016-09-11 Thread Karl Heinz Marbaise (JIRA)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RAT-220?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel=15481395#comment-15481395 ] Karl Heinz Marbaise commented on RAT-220: - Where is written that Maven is at 1.8 ? Maven 3.3+ is Java