[xwiki-dev] [VOTE] Switch to JDK 1.5

[Radu Danciu]

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.

Radu

On 6/15/07, Ludovic Dubost <ludovic at xwiki.com> wrote:
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> 0
> 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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