I don't think this is surprising, however I think targeting JDK 1.4
but being able to run Java 5 is going to be common in this scenario
(consider most IDEs require JRE 5.0 now), and for those who can't even
do that, then they still have the option of using Maven 2.0.x, or
contributing retrotranslation support :)
Cheers,
Brett
On 18/08/2008, at 4:42 PM, De Smet Ringo wrote:
Is there any reason that the 2.1 branch cannot require java
1.5 to compile and execute?
I am not a developer on Maven, so my vote would not count anyway. I am
an independent IT consultant and want to offer some background
information why this would be a "bad" decision.
During my work for the last 3 customers (past 1,5 year), only one of
them had support for both Java 1.4 and 1.5. The other two were still
locked on Java 1.4. In one of these companies, the developers even had
to "fight" to get Java 1.5 installed on their developer machines to
have
a more decent Java VM to run Eclipse more fluently. Their official
build
system however is only running on Java 1.4. This was mainly due to the
fact that they were still running on Weblogic 8.0 which is not
supported
on Java 1.5. So even with the option of the compiler target flag, some
companies refuse to accept this and they really want to have Maven
running on Java 1.4, and compiling with exactly the same JDK that
their
production environment is using.
In short: you would be surprised how much companies are still on Java
1.4! Please give this some more thought!
Tnx,
Ringo
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