On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 5:04 AM, Niall Pemberton <niall.pember...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Jukka Zitting <jukka.zitt...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Commons IO trunk is already using Java 5 features (which is nice), but >> I was wondering about how we can make the next IO release usable in >> environments that still run Java 1.4. For example I've just added a >> few extra classes (see IO-192 and IO-193) that I'd like to start using >> in projects like Apache Jackrabbit that still target Java 1.4 as the >> base platform. >> >> One option that we use in Apache Tika is the Maven retrotranslator >> plugin. It produces an extra retrotranslated version of the jar >> artifact for use in Java 1.4 environments. Another option is to >> maintain a separate branch for a Java 1.4 (or older) version of >> Commons IO. >> Any thoughts on this? > > We created a branch before the Java 1.5 changes were started: > > http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/commons/proper/io/branches/IO_1_4_BRANCH/ > > I think the new Java5 stuff in trunk should be released as IO 2.0 - so > we could release a IO 1.5 version that is for JDK 1.4. Having said > that JDK 1.4 is so old now I don't really think we should bother > supporting it and just focus on getting a release of the latest stuff > out.
+1. 1.4 is too dead, move JackRabbit off it ;) Hen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
