On 20 March 2013 19:46, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All: > > It seems to be that the B64 code needs work for 1.3 no matter what. So I am > not sure I agree with Simo because: > - We rework B64 for 1.3 as proposed by Sebb.
It's not really rework - just tidying up the new code so it agrees with Java 6. > - We rework B64 again for 1.4 using Java 6. > > It seems like asking for trouble on subtle compatibility issues from 1.2 to > 1.3 Not possible, as the code is new in 1.3. > and again from 1.3 to 1.4. So long as the behaviour for valid strings does not change it does not matter the behaviour for invalid strings changes over time. > So proposal is to go with the longer term solution now and use Java 6. This would preclude reporting errors for trailing garbage - if we want to do that. > Gary > > > On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 3:37 PM, Simone Tripodi > <simonetrip...@apache.org>wrote: > >> My proposal is: let's go ahead with Java5 compatibility for 1.3, let's +1 >> increase for 1.6 in 1.4 or 2.0 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org