FYI,
another applied patch that we should reject instead, because it requires
1.5:
https://builds.apache.org/job/Cocoon%202.1.X/111/console
On 08/10/2016 13:14, Francesco Chicchiriccò wrote:
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
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