On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote:
> On 21/12/2011 16:57, Phil Steitz wrote: > > On 12/21/11 9:41 AM, Christian Grobmeier wrote: > >> On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Phil Steitz <phil.ste...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >>> 1.5.x ships with tomcat and is used by lots of other production > >>> applications. We need to maintain the ability to patch it. > >> Tomcat 5.5 (the oldest stable version i can find) uses Java 5: > >> http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/setup.html > >> > >> This proposed release is binary compatible - they should not have any > >> issue to upgrade, right? > >> How long would you like to maintain the elder 1.5.x code without java 5 > support? > > > > At least until 2.0 is out and for some time after that. Asking > > tomcat and others to upgrade twice makes no sense. I will let Mark > > or other tc committers comment on that. > > Tomcat will continue to use 1.5.x since that is what DBCP uses. When > 2.0.x is ready, trunk will switch to 2.0.x and the associated DBCP > release. Depending on the results, the release branches (5.5.x, 6.0.x > and 7.0.x) may follow. > > Tomcat is highly unlikely to use Pool 1.6.x > Which is quite fine with me. My goal is only to provide a version of pool-1 with generics that is as least disruptive as possible. Gary > Mark > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > -- E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org JUnit in Action, 2nd Ed: <http://goog_1249600977>http://bit.ly/ECvg0 Spring Batch in Action: <http://s.apache.org/HOq>http://bit.ly/bqpbCK Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com Home: http://garygregory.com/ Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory
