On 5 June 2017 at 20:26, Amey Jadiye <ameyjad...@gmail.com> wrote: > +1 > > I have seen hundreds of applications which are in (maintenance+ little > enhancement) mode are already moved to higher versions of java ( >1.5 ), > even very legacy applications which are just in maintenance mode or marked > for decommission are already running on 1.6 as all know that there will be > no updates. there could be rarest of rare applications running on 1.5 and > sure they dont want move else they could have moved long back to 1.6 and > and rarely 1.5 will move to java8 or 9 ;) > > so yeah, why are we discussing support for Java 1.5 when not even the > vendors who ship it support it ? just move our modules for >=1.6.
This thread is *not* about support for 1.5. It's about supporting Java 9, and what to do about components whose last release is 1.5 or earlier. That is very different. > Regards, > Amey > > On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 10:24 PM, Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> > wrote: > >> This whole discussion has me really confused. According to >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_version_history < >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_version_history> the free version of >> Java 5 reached end-of-life in 2009 and Oracle's supported version reached >> end-of-life in 2015. https://developer.ibm.com/javasdk/support/lifecycle/ >> <https://developer.ibm.com/javasdk/support/lifecycle/> doesn’t even show >> Java 5 any more but https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/ >> forums/html/topic?id=77777777-0000-0000-0000-000014807464 < >> https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/ >> forums/html/topic?id=77777777-0000-0000-0000-000014807464> indicates that >> it also was dropped in 2015. >> >> So why are we discussing support for Java 1.5 when not even the vendors >> who ship it support it? >> >> Ralph >> >> >> > On Jun 5, 2017, at 9:45 AM, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 9:17 AM, Jochen Wiedmann < >> jochen.wiedm...@gmail.com <mailto:jochen.wiedm...@gmail.com>> >> > wrote: >> > >> >> On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 5:20 PM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >>>> I'd like us to be able to push out a new release with minimal changes >> >>>> at any given time. If we have, for example, 1.6 as the target, and the >> >>>> previous >> >>>> release had 1.5 as the target, then we'd loose that ability, IMO. >> >>>> (Think security releases.We've had quite a few in the past.) >> >>> >> >>> Understood, but I'm not sure why you feel the lack of a 1.6 release >> >>> would prevent a security release. >> >>> Surely we could just apply the fixes to the previously released code >> >>> and change to 1.6 at the same time? >> >> >> >> Because the result clearly be binary incompatible to its predecessor, >> >> and that's the whole point of such an emergency release. We'd want a >> >> drop-in replacement. >> >> >> > >> > If someone wants a fix for something that runs on 1.5, they are welcome >> to >> > provide a PR. I do not think we need to handcuff ourselves to Java 5. If >> > your runtime is stuck on Java 5, your likely to have other more pressing >> > security issues to address... >> > >> > Gary >> > >> >> >> >> Jochen >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> The next time you hear: "Don't reinvent the wheel!" >> >> >> >> http://www.keystonedevelopment.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ < >> http://www.keystonedevelopment.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/> >> >> evolution-of-the-wheel-300x85.jpg >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org <mailto: >> dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org> >> >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org <mailto: >> dev-h...@commons.apache.org> >> > > > > -- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
