On 1 March 2014 19:53, Matt Benson <gudnabr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've said it before: doocracy. If someone wants to take on the work to
> provide 1.5 support, they've widened the audience of the component, which
> should be seen as a win if it didn't cause anyone else a problem.

Which is what I just did; I fixed the test code so it still compiled
with Java 1.5.

I do wish people would stop taking that as an opportunitty to suggest
a completely unnecessary move to a later version of Java.

> Maybe we
> should have a [compatibility] component to capture these backports in a
> reusable way! ;-)

It's not a backport; that would require a lot more work.

The point is that most Commons components are intended for wide re-use.
Unnecessarily restricting the field of use is plain wrong in my opiniong.

> Matt
> On Mar 1, 2014 11:34 AM, "Benedikt Ritter" <brit...@apache.org> wrote:
>
>> If it's only test code, I'm hesitant to move to Java 6. Are there
>> improvements for production code as well?
>>
>> Benedikt
>>
>>
>> 2014-03-01 17:54 GMT+01:00 Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com>:
>>
>> > On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Emmanuel Bourg <ebo...@apache.org>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > > +1 to stop bothering with Java 5 for all our components.
>> > >
>> >
>> > +1 :)
>> > Gary
>> >
>> >
>> > >
>> > > Emmanuel Bourg
>> > >
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