For what it's worth, I am +1 here as well (I was the one who
implemented the changed the required Java 1.6).
Thanks...
Bill-
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 7:28 AM, Christian Grobmeier
wrote:
> I am very much +1 what Hen and Simone said. Again.
>
> As a volunteer I am here for making some cool stuff,
I am very much +1 what Hen and Simone said. Again.
As a volunteer I am here for making some cool stuff, but not to
satisfy the needs of companies who are using outdated jdks. Sometimes
it makes sense, but the "for ever support" of jdks becomes obsessive.
Rather I would prefer to work with cool te
>> I'm tempted to go as far as to say it's irresponsible of us to support 1.5
>> :)>
+1 and IMHO innovation blocking as well
moreover from the commons homepage: "The Commons is an Apache project
focused on all aspects of reusable Java components." that doesn't mean
to me "helping companies on ke
Oracle declared 1.5 EOL a good while back; ie) no security fixes; why
should we encourage users to be on outdated versions?
Especially as I think there are pretty big security issues unfixed in
1.5 (the magic floating number crash for example). If you're still on
1.5, you have worse problems than
On 12 January 2012 08:20, Henri Yandell wrote:
> Tell me why 1.6 is a problem again?
Because there are likely to be many companies still using Java 1.5 out there.
I was hoping to fix the code so they are not prevented from using the
new version.
> This is DB-helper code, so much less worried ab
Tell me why 1.6 is a problem again?
This is DB-helper code, so much less worried about use cases like Android.
Hen
On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 3:05 AM, sebb wrote:
> I did some experimenting with BeanProcessor to see what would be
> involved in providing Java 1.5 support.
>
> As part of this, I trie
I did some experimenting with BeanProcessor to see what would be
involved in providing Java 1.5 support.
As part of this, I tried commenting out the new code that requires Java 1.6.
All tests still worked.
I then commented out most of the rest of the else if clauses in the
processColumn method,
