On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 1:48 AM, Stefan Seelmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 12:40 AM, Alex Karasulu <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 1:39 AM, Stefan Seelmann <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 12:26 AM, Emmanuel Lécharny <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>>> On 2/9/11 12:18 AM, Stefan Seelmann wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> All in all, switching to Java 6 is not *that* bad. i'm just wondering if
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> problem we have with the concurrent test tooling (which requires Java6)
>>>>>> can't be workarounded by requiring the code to be compiled using Java 5
>>>>>> and
>>>>>> run with Java 6.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If not, then, well, let's go for Java 6
>>>>>
>>>>> I think a test dependency (even when helpful by speeding up the build
>>>>> and detecting concurrency issues) isn't worth that step.
>>>>>
>>>>> I agree with Emmanuel that Java 5 or older is still used in companies
>>>>> (just like in my current project). But I think Java 5 is mainly used
>>>>> by commercial software like the fat application servers or ERP
>>>>> software. If a company decides to use ApacheDS we can expect that they
>>>>> know that there is something beyond Java 5.
>>>>
>>>> I was more specifically thinking about companies using ADS for unit tests. 
>>>> I
>>>> have some clients doing that.
>>>
>>> Ok. There is no hurry to switch now, as we have a workaround for the
>>> concurrency tests.
>>
>> Oh? What's up?
>
> Please see
> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/directory-dev/201102.mbox/%[email protected]%3E
> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1068307

Ahh OK I saw this before. I thought there was yet another solution.

Thanks,
Alex

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