19 Jun
2007
19 Jun
'07
12:17 a.m.
On Jun 15, 2007, at 9:02 AM, Ludovic Dubost 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
I think you introduced css4j/dom4j recently in xwiki core for
improving PDF output and these libs require JDK 1.5 :-) It would be a
shame to go back to something less good. I'm not too familiar with
your changes so maybe there are some 1.4 alternatives we could use.
I'd prefer if we said that:
1) XWiki 1.1 is using 1.5
2) We make a version of XWiki 1.0 that runs on 1.4
I really don't think we can continue supporting 1.4 for long on trunk
(actually we're not currently supporting it) but I'm ok to say that
when someone wants to add a new lib to the core we take a call.
Anyway the vote results are:
* 6 +1 (binding)
* 1 0
* 3 +1 (non binding)
Thus the vote is passed.
Thanks
-Vincent
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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