Wow, did not expect this... To be clear, are you proposing to move to 1.8 the binary AND source compatibility?
Even wilder: how would you see moving the 2_1_X branch to GIT with github integration, thus allowing us accepting pull requests? We'll definitely need some help here... Regards. Il 8 ottobre 2016 06:43:06 CEST, David Crossley <cross...@apache.org> ha scritto: >I agree. It should also enable better participation at both Cocoon >and at Apache Forrest. There were also many supporting products >that could then be updated. Lets go to 8. > >-David > >Insight 49 wrote: >> +1, and I strongly agree with Alfred. >> >> Cocoon 2.1 is a good stable platform, but doesn't encourage new >> participation, partly I suspect, because many people and businesses >> run Java 8 or 7 (as you know, you get all kinds of build errors when >> trying to build cocoon using those Java versions). >> >> If we can upgrade the code, classes and supporting jars, I'd >recommend >> Java version 7 or 8. >> >> As an example, the very successful Apache Solr search uses Java 8! >> >> "You will need the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) version 1.8 or >higher." >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Installing+Solr >> >> Dan >> >> >> On 10/7/16, Nathaniel, Alfred <alfred.nathan...@six-group.com> wrote: >> > +1 but I would go straight to 6, 7, or even 8. >> > Past experience is that it is a real nuisance trying to support an >ancient >> > JDK no developer is actually using anymore. >> > >> > Cheers, Alfred. >> > >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: Francesco Chicchiriccò [mailto:ilgro...@apache.org] >> > Sent: Freitag, 7. Oktober 2016 11:46 >> > To: dev@cocoon.apache.org >> > Subject: [DISCUSS] Set minimum JDK version to 1.5 for Cocoon 2.1 >> > >> > Hi all, >> > as recently noticed during the (unfortunately rejected) patch for >> > COCOON-2354 [1], it might make sense to upgrade the current minimum >JDK >> > requirement for Cocoon 2.1 from 1.4 to 1.5, mainly to ease some >upgrades >> > and help Cocoon 2.1 living in the modern world. >> > >> > Besides 3rd part library updates, some work could be needed to >upgrade >> > our Java code, so help would be appreciated. >> -- Francesco Chicchiriccò Tirasa - Open Source Excellence http://www.tirasa.net/ Member at The Apache Software Foundation Syncope, Cocoon, Olingo, CXF, OpenJPA, PonyMail http://home.apache.org/~ilgrosso/
