On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 9:38 PM, James Carman <ja...@carmanconsulting.com> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 11:44 PM, Henri Yandell <flame...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I'd have thought they'd be fine. >> >> A Java6 user using 1.1 upgrading to 1.2 would be able to drop it in. >> >> A Java5 user wouldn't, but that's dropping support not binary >> incompatibility. >> > > So, would any new features and bug fixes for 1.1 have to be released > as 1.1.x for the Java 5 folks' sake?
Nope. I'd accept that if we had a security issue, that 1.1.x would be necessary for the Java 5'ers, but we've never had a security issue so I've no reason to expect one. > I think this is somewhat of a moot point, since there are fewer and > fewer people using Java 5 these days (even my company is on Java 6 > surprisingly). I'm all about charging forward. I just don't want to > paint ourselves in a corner. We paint ourselves into a corner whenever we assume statements are unchangeable. Even in my statement above I reserve the right to vote +1 on a 1.1.x that has some valuable new feature. I take it as a given that 'business' is fluid :) Hen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
