On 12/01/2012, at 2:08 PM, Barrie Treloar wrote:

> http://maven.apache.org/developers/release/maven-project-release-procedure.html
> says "you have JDK 5 installed and on your shell's path."

it should probably say "or above"...

> 
> I was about to try out the new laptop, which is a Macbook Air, and the
> is the first time I've used a Mac.
> It comes with JDK 6.
> 
> Are we happy that compiler options will correctly build JDK 5 classes?

Yep, as long as you used the right things, as you note next:

> (Things like 
> http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/String.html#isEmpty%28%29
> break binary backwards compatibility.)
> 
> Or do I need to work out how to install JDK 5?

Maven 3 has the animal sniffer plugin set up in its build - maybe that could be 
pushed up to the parent. I think Jenkins runs all the plugins under JDK 5 so 
you could check that's building fine first too.

- Brett

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