Right, I missed this thread. I don't understand the Eclipse limitation about required JRE but can believe there is some impacts. As the same "EOL" applies to eclipse, and many eclipse plugin require java5, could we ignore this platform limitation few users will not survive when maven 2.1 will be released ?
Nicolas 2008/5/4 Jason van Zyl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On 4-May-08, at 11:11 AM, nicolas de loof wrote: > > > > > > > > I retrotranslated maven-artifact so that users of 1.4 in m2eclipse > > > would > > > not be inconvenienced. I have not retrotranslated XBR as we asked > > > users > > > about 1.5 use on the m2eclipse list and the only people that responded > > > were > > > those who wanted to drop support for 1.4. > > > > > > > > > Why did this happen on m2eclipse-users list and not on maven-dev one ? > > > > We did it here a long time ago, but we asked Eclipse users because they > are more effected by limitations of the platform. Go look in the mailing > archive, there was a long discussion on this list. In short the impact to > users of IDEs, especially Eclipse, has far more impact then general command > line usage. From what's been seen so far almost everyone could survive on > the CLI with 1.5, but when things in Eclipse/WTP integration not working on > older versions of the target platform is a real nightmare so that's why we > asked there, in addition to here. > > > > If one dependendency now requires Java5,why still retrotranslate others > > ? > > > > > Sorry, I don't GROK your question. There is only one retrotranslated > dependency: maven-artifact. > > Nicolas. > > > > Thanks, > > Jason > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > Jason van Zyl > Founder, Apache Maven > jason at sonatype dot com > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will > elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come > and sit softly on your shoulder ... > > -- Thoreau > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
