On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 7:32 PM, Rainer Jung <rainer.j...@kippdata.de> wrote: > On 21.12.2011 17:41, Christian Grobmeier wrote: >> >> On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Phil Steitz<phil.ste...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> 1.5.x ships with tomcat and is used by lots of other production >>> applications. We need to maintain the ability to patch it. >> >> >> Tomcat 5.5 (the oldest stable version i can find) uses Java 5: >> http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/setup.html > > > Tomcat 5.5 supports using it with Java 1.4.2 (e.g. the page you referenced > says "If using a J2SE 1.4 JRE, the compatibility package must be downloaded > and expanded inside the folder where Tomcat was installed."). > > Minimum Java versions are: > > TC 5.5: 1.4.2 > TC 6: 1.5.0 > TC 7: 1.6.0
Thanks Rainer, missed that. <kidding> Leaves me to the question if [pool] should become a Tomcat subproject as the pool-releasecycle seems to be forget after the requirements of tomcat. </kidding> Christian > > Regards, > > Rainer > > >> This proposed release is binary compatible - they should not have any >> issue to upgrade, right? >> How long would you like to maintain the elder 1.5.x code without java 5 >> support? > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > -- http://www.grobmeier.de https://www.timeandbill.de --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
