On Jun 16, 2012, at 2:26 PM, Gary Gregory wrote: > For now, I want @override so I am ok with 1.6 source but I is safe to > the have 1.5 target? Commons-io >=2.3 is not pressing for VFS. > > Gary
Why would it not be? If that is all you are doing the @Override doesn't make it to the actual Class. See http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/annotation/RetentionPolicy.html#SOURCE for the retention policy used by @Override. Ralph > > On Jun 16, 2012, at 16:00, Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> wrote: > >> @Override is a compile annotation so we could have source be 1.6 and target >> 1.5 for that. Do you have a pressing need to upgrade to commons-io 2.3? If >> that is a necessity than I am OK with upgrading to Java 6 for the target. >> IOW, I'm not in favor of upgrading just because "Java 5 is dead" but because >> we actually have a requirement to do it. >> >> Ralph >>
