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 >> > > >> > > >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > > 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 >> > Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition< >> > http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> >> > JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> >> > Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> >> > Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com >> > Home: http://garygregory.com/ >> > Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> http://people.apache.org/~britter/ >> http://www.systemoutprintln.de/ >> http://twitter.com/BenediktRitter >> http://github.com/britter >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org