Hi, should we start a official vote for the Java version topic for JXPath or following the release plan provided by Benedikt?
-- Uwe > On 25 Nov 2015, at 20:18, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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. >> > > +1 > > Gary > > >> >>> Gary >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- Uwe >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> 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 >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
