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

[Catalin Hritcu]

+1

Catalin

On 6/12/07, Stéphane Laurière <slauriere at xwiki.com> wrote:
> Vincent Massol wrote:
> > 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).
>
> +1
>
> Stéphane
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