2013/10/9 Steve Ebersole <steven.ebers...@gmail.com> > What is gained needs to be balanced by what you are giving up. > > OGM itself is new, but at the end of the day its a JPA provider which is > not new. Basing on Java 7 will limit adaption from folks wanting to drop > OGM in to their app as replacement for their JPA provider to give it a spin > in certain environments.
Yes, that's true. Hard to say how many such cases there would be without some real figures. Maybe it's just not worth taking the risk. > On Wed 09 Oct 2013 07:54:14 AM CDT, Sanne Grinovero wrote: > >> +1 for requiring Java7 >> >> On 9 October 2013 12:55, Gunnar Morling <gun...@hibernate.org> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> In the context of the notorious JavaDoc CSS issue ([OGM-341] - an updated >>> stylesheet is required when building our projects with Java 7) Sanne, >>> Davide and I were wondering whether we should take the opportunity and >>> actually require Java 7 as the minimum version for Hibernate OGM, not >>> only >>> at build but also at run time. >>> >>> This would give us some interesting opportunities for the implementation, >>> language-wise (e.g. diamond operator, multi-catch) as well as >>> library-wise >>> (e.g. the fork/join framework). On the downside we might exclude some >>> users >>> who are still running on Java 6. >>> >>> Given that OGM is a rather new project, I'd assume though that at this >>> point most users are in a more experimental stage of using it. I'd thus >>> also expect that they use a more current version than 6 which has reached >>> the end of its (public) support lifecycle. So this change might not >>> effect >>> many in reality. >>> >>> Any thoughts? >>> >>> --Gunnar >>> >>> [OGM-341] >>> https://hibernate.atlassian.**net/browse/OGM-341<https://hibernate.atlassian.net/browse/OGM-341> >>> ______________________________**_________________ >>> hibernate-dev mailing list >>> hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org >>> https://lists.jboss.org/**mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev<https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev> >>> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> hibernate-dev mailing list >> hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org >> https://lists.jboss.org/**mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev<https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev> >> > _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev
