I think we should stick to the plan I outlined. I hope to have some time to work in JXPATH this weekend. I'll also work on a VM for building JXPATH with Java 4.
BR, Benedikt 2015-12-02 21:17 GMT+01:00 Uwe Barthel <bart...@x-reizend.de>: > 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 > > -- http://people.apache.org/~britter/ http://www.systemoutprintln.de/ http://twitter.com/BenediktRitter http://github.com/britter
