On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 5:01 AM, Chris Bowditch
wrote:
> Hi Vincent,
>
> before making such a decision I'd like to weigh up pros and cons of such a
> proposal. The only pro that I can detect is improved support for
> annotations. IIUC, there aren't many language changes between Java 5 and 6,
> so t
Hi Vincent,
before making such a decision I'd like to weigh up pros and cons of such
a proposal. The only pro that I can detect is improved support for
annotations. IIUC, there aren't many language changes between Java 5 and
6, so the benefits to a developer will be small.
The obvious con is
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 5:51 AM, Vincent Hennebert wrote:
> Hi,
>
> it seems that people are having more and more trouble to compile their
> code on a 1.5 JDK. Also, Java 1.5 is getting really old now with the end
> of public updates dating as far back as October 2009.
>
> So maybe it’s time to dro
Tue, 8 Oct 2013 13:51:38 +0200
> From: vhenneb...@gmail.com
> To: general@xmlgraphics.apache.org
> Subject: Java 1.6 as Minimum Requirement
>
> Hi,
>
> it seems that people are having more and more trouble to compile their
> code on a 1.5 JDK. Also, Java 1.5 is getting reall
Hi,
it seems that people are having more and more trouble to compile their
code on a 1.5 JDK. Also, Java 1.5 is getting really old now with the end
of public updates dating as far back as October 2009.
So maybe it’s time to drop support for Java 1.5 and switch to 1.6 as
a minimum requirement for
