On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 9:27 AM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 25 November 2015 at 16:49, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 11:57 PM, Uwe Barthel <bart...@x-reizend.de> > wrote: > > > >> > >> > Do you like to start these changes before or after the release 1.4? > >>>> > I prefer to create the release as soon as possible and start rework > on > >>>> that baseline. > >>>> > >>> > >> Maybe my statement was a bit ambiguous. I'm fine with a Java version 1.6 > >> or 1.7 but would not wait until the code is overall refurbished. > > > > > > RERO! :-) > > Repent at leisure. > > > > >> > >> > >> The problem with JDK 1.4 is, that I don't have it on any machine. The > >>> oldest JDK you can get for Mac OS X to my knowledge is 1.6. > >>> > >> > >> Unfortunately, same here. > > > > > > No longer supporting 1.4 is not a showstopper IMO. Bumping the JRE to 1.6 > > or 1.7 and releasing would be OK with me. > > Same here. > > However, since the code was written for 1.4, it won't have generics > support. > > Do we want to release code which requires 1.5+ but which does not > compile cleanly on 1.5+? > > It's quite a lot of work adding generics, and mistakes can be hard to > correct without potentially causing compatibility issues. > > I don't think there is an easy solution here. However, unless the time > can be put in to add generics properly, I think it would be better not > to do so at all. > In which case, change the Java version to the minimum that is easy to > build/test, i.e. 1.6. > This would be with the intention of doing another release before too > long that fixes up generics etc. > That could target 1.7. >
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