I'm maintaining Doxia and maven-site-plugin for a long time, trying to keep the prerequisites (for end users particularly) as low as possible when I don't have a strong win on upgrading.
Currently, maven-site-plugin (which is what users see, without knowing much about Doxia) requires Java 6 only. With Doxia 1.8 / maven-site-plugin 3.7, in fact, there is a little trick: one Doxia module (Markdown) requires Java 7, because of the library used, and I documented how one can downgrade this module if he strictly require to use maven-site-plugin 3.7 with Java 6. But for sure, when building maven-site-plugin, I didn't try to add a profile to be able to build with Java 6: Java 7 is required to build maven-site- plugin. Honestly, for Java 6, maven-site-plugin 3.7 is the last version: now it's time to drop it and require Java 7 if you want newer version of the plugin. Then I'm full ok to upgrade Doxia requirement for Doxia 1.9 and maven-site- plugin 3.8 to Java 7. On httpunit, AFAIK it's only for Doxia tests during its build: I don't have any issue with building Doxia with Java 8 to produce jar that require Java 7 only. Regards, Hervé Le lundi 14 mai 2018, 11:07:39 CEST Graham Leggett a écrit : > Hi all, > > I would like to clarify what the policy is on maven-doxia and the maven > project in general, and minimum java versions. > > With the XHTML5 work on Doxia, I have managed to keep all changes without a > requirement to upgrade any dependencies, until I got to > maven-doxia-sitetools and httpunit, which doesn’t understand any HTML5 > tags. My current workaround is to simply test that HTML5 tags are present, > but ignore their type, and this seems good enough for now - no httpunit > upgrade needed. > > Upgrading httpunit to a version that supports HTML5 and doesn’t suffer from > bug https://sourceforge.net/p/htmlunit/bugs/1961/ means a minimum java > version of v1.8. > > What is the policy on java versions in maven-doxia? Is it intentionally kept > behind the curve so old code can be built, or is it acceptable to make java > 1.8 a minimum version? > > Regards, > Graham > — --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org
