On Jun 18, 2007, at 9:09 PM, Radu Danciu wrote:
Has this thread yet developed into a decision? I'm told that it should be decided within 72 hours of the posting, whereas it has been more than a week since the vote started. I would really like to start working on my project by now, and actually see it in action, so I'd apreciate if this matter was solved rather soon.
This decision shouldn't block you at all. Actually you should put your code in a plugin in xwiki-plugins/. That'll cleanly separate it from the core and that'll also allow you to use JDK 1.5 for your plugin.
Regarding the vote, 72 hours is a minimum and yes I'll close the vote. Ludovic wasn't completely in agreement so I let a few day pass. I'll wrap the vote soon but again don't let that hold you on anything.
Thanks
-Vincent
On 6/15/07, Ludovic Dubost <ludovic@xwiki.com> wrote:
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At this point after talking with some clients, I think it is still a
problem to widely switch to 1.5 at this point.
Many big customers are running WebSphere 6.0 which is Java 1.4. We could
exclude ourselves from these users, so we need to be carefull.
I would vote +1 for a default build in java 1.5 as long as we don't
change core libraries to only 1.5 compatible library but only new non
critical features that are only 1.5.
Which means we should still be able to compile a limited version of
XWiki in 1.4 by excluding these additionals non compatible features.
This also means which should not include any 1.5 language features in
our core code
Ludovic
Vincent Massol a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> I think it's time to officially decide if we want to standardize on
> 1.5. Some reasons we may want to do this:
>
> * JDK 1.4 is old. 1.5 is mainstream. 1.6 is about to be released.
> * Most libraries have now switched to 1.5 and it's going to be real
> hard to stay on 1.4 if we want to get bug fixes/new features from the
> libraries we use
> * Radu needs to use some google jars for his GSOC and they seem to
> require JDK 1.5
> * We already require 1.5 I believe (although it's a light dependency)
> and have been requiring 1.5 for now several months (> 5 months) and we
> haven't heard complaints from users about this
>
> The vote is about officially dropping support for 1.4 and
> standardizing on 1.5 (and thus allowing us to use the new features of
> the language too like generics, annotations, etc).
>
> Here's my +1
>
> Please cast your votes.
>
> Thanks
> -Vincent
>
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