Yep. My view is that we should charge in, do whatever is the right thing and then when we're ready for release we can worry about back compat and naming and package changing etc.
Please, please bring on the 1.5 desires :) I'm also favourable to be 1.6+ if there's any value, I just haven't found much yet. Hen On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Matt Benson <gudnabr...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Hi, Michael. > > [lang] has been officially marked as targeting 1.5 in its m2 pom, so I > suppose you should feel free to let the patches fly. > > Regards, > Matt > > --- On Fri, 3/13/09, Michael Wooten <mwooten....@gmail.com> wrote: > >> From: Michael Wooten <mwooten....@gmail.com> >> Subject: [lang] Developer interested in common-lang project >> To: dev@commons.apache.org >> Date: Friday, March 13, 2009, 2:22 PM >> Hi. >> I am very interested in contributing to the commons-lang >> project, but would >> like to know the state of it. I've seen several posts in >> JIRA and in the >> developer mailing list about LangTwo and moving to Java 5.0 >> for version 3.0. >> The projects I work on for my company have either moved to >> Java 6.0, or in >> the case of one of them, are migrating to Java 5.0. In any >> case, one of the >> reasons we do not utilize commons-lang is its lack of >> Generics. I believe >> the project is highly useful and would be greatly improved >> with Java 5.0 >> Generics, varargs, and annotations, but the developer site >> still mentions >> targeting 1.2. Has anything been ratified about the use of >> Java 5.0? I don't >> see many commits to svn. Is commons-lang still being >> maintained or improved? >> I've read mention of a LangTwo branch in the repository, >> but I couldn't find >> it. Does this branch still exist? I would love to help >> contribute to bring >> the project up to Java 5.0 if this is indeed the path. >> >> Any information at all would be greatly appreciated. >> >> Thanks. >> >> -Michael >> > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
