On Sep 14, 2013, at 7:23, Oleg Kalnichevski <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-09-13 at 17:25 -0400, Gary Gregory wrote: >> HttpClient 4.2 and 4.3 requires Java 5. >> >> Which components are you talking about? >> >> Gary > > I think the question is whether or not we should retain 1.5 > compatibility for the next release series. > > I believe that 1.5 compatibility is becoming pointless. It is getting > increasingly difficult to maintain while hardly helping us expand our > user base. As far as know there is no even official way of obtaining a > 1.5 JDK from Oracle. > > However having said all that I also have to admit that Java 1.6 does not > really bring a lot in terms of new features. We probably should also > consider upgrading straight to Java 1.7 in order to get full try with > resources support and NIO2. > > I suggest that we take this discussion to the user list and start a poll > on a minimal JRE level for the next release series. It seems to me that 4.2.x and 4.3.x should stay on Java 5 and we can go to 6 or 7 for 4.4. > > Oleg > >> >> On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Ryan McKinley <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Now that a release is out, is it worth asking about 1.5 support? >>> >>> Obviously we should not change the system requirements unless there is a >>> clear gain. >>> >>> Thoughts? >>> >>> ryan > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
