We are still using 1.5 (Sonatype Nexus) I think 99% our user base is using 1.6. The arguments against switching seem to come down to the older major web containers and lack of support for one reason or another.
You could role out 1.0 with 1.5 support and then switch after? Just an idea. But then again, we are still on the JSecurity code base ;) On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Tauren Mills <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm fine with dropping 1.5 support. > > Tauren > > > On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Kalle Korhonen < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hey all Shiro lovers, >> >> just checking if any of you are still limited to running on 1.5 jre? >> Sun end-of-lifed their support for 1.5 last November (see >> http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index_jdk5.jsp). Currently we >> compile on 1.5 but we have a new aspectj module coming up that might >> require 1.6. The simplest option for Shiro is to compile everything in >> 1.6 and certainly there are other options but before we do anything >> more complicated, I wanted to check if sticking with 1.5 is worth it. >> >> Kalle >> > >
