This whole discussion has me really confused. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_version_history <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_version_history> the free version of Java 5 reached end-of-life in 2009 and Oracle's supported version reached end-of-life in 2015. https://developer.ibm.com/javasdk/support/lifecycle/ <https://developer.ibm.com/javasdk/support/lifecycle/> doesn’t even show Java 5 any more but https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/forums/html/topic?id=77777777-0000-0000-0000-000014807464 <https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/forums/html/topic?id=77777777-0000-0000-0000-000014807464> indicates that it also was dropped in 2015.
So why are we discussing support for Java 1.5 when not even the vendors who ship it support it? Ralph > On Jun 5, 2017, at 9:45 AM, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 9:17 AM, Jochen Wiedmann <jochen.wiedm...@gmail.com > <mailto:jochen.wiedm...@gmail.com>> > wrote: > >> On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 5:20 PM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>>> I'd like us to be able to push out a new release with minimal changes >>>> at any given time. If we have, for example, 1.6 as the target, and the >>>> previous >>>> release had 1.5 as the target, then we'd loose that ability, IMO. >>>> (Think security releases.We've had quite a few in the past.) >>> >>> Understood, but I'm not sure why you feel the lack of a 1.6 release >>> would prevent a security release. >>> Surely we could just apply the fixes to the previously released code >>> and change to 1.6 at the same time? >> >> Because the result clearly be binary incompatible to its predecessor, >> and that's the whole point of such an emergency release. We'd want a >> drop-in replacement. >> > > If someone wants a fix for something that runs on 1.5, they are welcome to > provide a PR. I do not think we need to handcuff ourselves to Java 5. If > your runtime is stuck on Java 5, your likely to have other more pressing > security issues to address... > > Gary > >> >> Jochen >> >> >> -- >> The next time you hear: "Don't reinvent the wheel!" >> >> http://www.keystonedevelopment.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ >> <http://www.keystonedevelopment.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/> >> evolution-of-the-wheel-300x85.jpg >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org >> <mailto:dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org> >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org >> <mailto:dev-h...@commons.apache.org>
