+1 on the move to java 6 we should consider to go to 3.0... its a breaking change... but i leave it up to you
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 12:35 AM, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Paul Libbrecht <p...@hoplahup.net> wrote: > >> Will the resulting jars still run on jdk 1.5? >> I think I would suggest a new major version if not. >> > > Hi Paul. > > No, if we use Java 6 APIs, you'll get errors on Java 5. > > We have not required major version change in the past for changing Java > versions on other Commons components. > > I happy to make the next release 3.0 instead of 2.3 but I do not see this > needed ATM. > > Thank you, > Gary > > >> paul >> >> >> Le 29 mars 2012 à 23:55, Gary Gregory a écrit : >> >> > Hi All: >> > >> > In order to add and use Charset APIs for encodings instead of encoding >> name >> > Strings with various APIs like String(byte[], Charset) and so on, I plan >> on >> > moving [io] to Java 6. >> > >> > I have (not committed) changes to the IOUtils class as a start: all APIs >> > that can take a String encoding name (old school) have a sister API that >> > takes a Charset object (new school). >> > >> > The refactoring I have is actually quite nice and gets rid of the odd >> noise >> > in the implementation "if encoding is null then call API1 else call >> API2." >> > Instead I convert the null to Charset.defaultCharset() in a new API >> (again, >> > not committed yet until I set the POM to Java 6). >> > >> > Thank you, >> > Gary >> > >> > -- >> > 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 >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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 -- http://www.grobmeier.de https://www.timeandbill.de --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
