On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 9:28 AM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 4 December 2011 17:13, William Speirs <wspe...@apache.org> wrote: >> What is the "rule" on when you can switch Java versions? Is going from > > http://commons.apache.org/releases/versioning.html > >> 1.4 to 1.5 too small of a version number bump to require a different >> version of Java? Would we need to wait until 2.0 to switch to Java >> 1.6? > > No, Java version changes don't require a major version bump according > to Commons rules, though I would perhaps expect one for Java 1.3 to > 1.6 (say). > > I just think that requiring Java 1.6 for a single method may be an > unnecessary restriction of the field of use.
+1. Generally try to stay 1.5 until a good reason. That good reason could be a single method, it'd depend on the method :) Hen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
