+1 on the move to java 6

we should consider to go to 3.0... its a breaking change... but i
leave it up to you


On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 12:35 AM, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Paul Libbrecht <p...@hoplahup.net> wrote:
>
>> Will the resulting jars still run on jdk 1.5?
>> I think I would suggest a new major version if not.
>>
>
> Hi Paul.
>
> No, if we use Java 6 APIs, you'll get errors on Java 5.
>
> We have not required major version change in the past for changing Java
> versions on other Commons components.
>
> I happy to make the next release 3.0 instead of 2.3 but I do not see this
> needed ATM.
>
> Thank you,
> Gary
>
>
>> paul
>>
>>
>> Le 29 mars 2012 à 23:55, Gary Gregory a écrit :
>>
>> > Hi All:
>> >
>> > In order to add and use Charset APIs for encodings instead of encoding
>> name
>> > Strings with various APIs like String(byte[], Charset) and so on, I plan
>> on
>> > moving [io] to Java 6.
>> >
>> > I have (not committed) changes to the IOUtils class as a start: all APIs
>> > that can take a String encoding name (old school) have a sister API that
>> > takes a Charset object (new school).
>> >
>> > The refactoring I have is actually quite nice and gets rid of the odd
>> noise
>> > in the implementation "if encoding is null then call API1 else call
>> API2."
>> > Instead I convert the null to Charset.defaultCharset() in a new API
>> (again,
>> > not committed yet until I set the POM to Java 6).
>> >
>> > Thank you,
>> > Gary
>> >
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