+1 to ensure that we have a good solution (toolchains) to continue to keep a compatibility with old Java builds. Like always, upgrading the prerequisite of the core is less annoying than the one in plugins. Users can always keep an old core (and many of them will do it as far as new core versions aren't bringing new useful features and plugins are compatible with old versions). Nothing more to ask in the survey or to change in questions/choices ? I let running the thread for few days and we'll launch the survey at the end of the week if you want. We can keep it open for July/August to have a maximum number of responses during holidays.
Cheers, On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 7:35 AM, Stephen Connolly < stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com> wrote: > Given that Oracle have stated they will be more aggressive in forcing > people to upgrade, eg -target (and I think -source too) will not got all > the way down to 1.2 any more from JDK8 IIRC, we will need to sort out a few > things: > > - is toolchains the way to go? > > - have we good test coverage with toolchains? Specifically building a > JavaEE .ear for a JavaEE 5 container (ie using all/most of our plugins)? > Better yet would be building a J2EE 1.4 .ear but I suspect we'd be fine > with the JDK 5.0 rather than strict spec conformance. (A lot of "big > business" use old containers and have Sarbains-Oxley heavyweight change > control, so changing app server is a "very big thing") > > - have we a good store for toolchains and integration tests? (Invoker > skipping tests if certain toolchains are missing, reporting what toolchains > are required, merging in toolchains, providing mock toolchains... And have > we any other users than the JDK?) > > - what is the experience of Surefire so far (being the first to completely > ditch JRE < 1.5) > > On Tuesday, 16 July 2013, Mirko Friedenhagen wrote: > > > On Jul 16, 2013 2:08 AM, "Arnaud Héritier" <aherit...@gmail.com > <javascript:;>> > > wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > Java 6 EOL was in feb and Maven and its plugins are always compatible > > > with Java 5 (And probably various plugins with Java 4). > > > Couldn't it be interesting to see which JDKs our users are using to > see > > > how we can schedule the end of support of Java 5 (and more). Perhaps a > > > removal of Java 5 support in 3.2 or 3.5 ... > > > Perhaps with a survey like this : > > > > > > > > https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Jqxq2KgSricwS7YV7pmWvHA8m7_TE7c8JhusugPmGW4/viewform > > > What do you think ? > > > Useful ? Useless > > > > Very, very useful. > > > > Regards > > Mirko > > > > > -- > Sent from my phone > -- ----- Arnaud Héritier http://aheritier.net Mail/GTalk: aheritier AT gmail DOT com Twitter/Skype : aheritier
