Brian M Dube wrote: > David Crossley wrote: > > Dispatcher seems to have some strange behaviours after the recent merge. > > > > It sounds like someone needs to get the PMC to agree on > > increasing the base Java version. > > I don't think I was around for the last Java version bump. What would > keep us from doing this? > > I was hesitant to switch locally to Java 5 when it first came out, but 1.4.2 > is quite old now. Java 6 is up to Update 17. I just saw this on > java.sun.com: > > "On October 30, 2008 J2SE 1.4.2 reached the end of its service life > (EOSL)." > > It's not just old, its service life has ended.
It would have been on the dev list during the lead-up to each release: http://forrest.apache.org/procedures/release/How_to_release.html#PrepProject -David
