On Jun 17, 2012, at 7:42, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 17 June 2012 03:40, Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> wrote: >> >> On Jun 16, 2012, at 2:26 PM, Gary Gregory wrote: >> >>> For now, I want @override so I am ok with 1.6 source but I is safe to >>> the have 1.5 target? Commons-io >=2.3 is not pressing for VFS. >>> >>> Gary >> >> Why would it not be? If that is all you are doing the @Override doesn't make >> it to the actual Class. See >> http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/annotation/RetentionPolicy.html#SOURCE >> for the retention policy used by @Override. > > Does not work for me; just tried changing target for pool and running > "mvn clean compile": > > [ERROR] BUILD FAILURE > [INFO] ------------------------------------------------ > [INFO] Compilation failure > Failure executing javac, but could not parse the error: > javac: source release 1.6 requires target release 1.6 > > == > > I'm not sure that wanting to use @Override for interface > implementations is a very good reason for requiring 1.6. > > If there is new functionality in Java 1.6 that is required for VFS then fine. > But not for a minor annotation issue.
Hi all, ATM I do not see a runtime reason for Java 6 but I have not looked for one really. I do see a development time reason in the value of @Override. I do see run time and dev time reasons as both drivers for adopting a newer JDK. Gary > >> Ralph >> >>> >>> On Jun 16, 2012, at 16:00, Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> wrote: >>> >>>> @Override is a compile annotation so we could have source be 1.6 and >>>> target 1.5 for that. Do you have a pressing need to upgrade to commons-io >>>> 2.3? If that is a necessity than I am OK with upgrading to Java 6 for the >>>> target. IOW, I'm not in favor of upgrading just because "Java 5 is dead" >>>> but because we actually have a requirement to do it. >>>> >>>> Ralph >>>> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
