The use of Java 5 is clearly because he is not interested in trying to deal with the committers. I think he has made that clear in a nice way.
On 4/19/06, Niall Pemberton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 4/18/06, Jonathan Revusky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would venture to guess, just as an outside observer, that if the > > author of Strecks is not given commit access to Struts itself, then he > > may run into limitations in the Struts codebase and end up making > > modifications to support things that Strecks needs, and end up with a > > forked version of the Struts 1.x code. > > I would hope not. > > > Of course, logically, if this guy is interested in developing further on > > top of Struts 1.x, and existing Struts committers aren't, he probably > > should be let in and Strecks might as well become Struts 1.3.x. or > > Struts 1.4.x and so on. > > Strecks requires JDK 1.5 and I don't believe we're ready to make this > a minimum requirement for Struts at this point in time. So at the > moment I don't believe it could be anything other than an optional add > on. If it was a separate Struts sub-module then obviously it would > have more credibility - but starting out as a sourceforge project > seems like a good plan IMO. > > Phil may correct me if I've got this wrong, but I believe it was his > aim to provide this functionality to existing Struts 1.2.x users and > has developed it based on the 1.2.x code, rather than 1.3.x. In fact I > believe it would have been easier to develop it for 1.3 - but that > wasn't his aim. If there are things we could change to make > integrating Strecks easier then Phil is welcome to submit patches > through bugzilla. We would prefer them for the current code base > (1.3.x) - although theres no reason why 1.2.x changes can't be > requested, except there may be no appetite for further 1.2.x releases. > > If there is interest in changing Struts to accomodate Strecks, then it > would be more appropriate to continue discussion on the dev list > though. > > Niall > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- "You can lead a horse to water but you cannot make it float on its back." ~Dakota Jack~
