http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-4143Actually it's scheduled for 2.1.1

Arnaud

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 10:49 PM, Dennis Lundberg <[email protected]>wrote:

> Benjamin Bentmann wrote:
> > John Casey wrote:
> >
> >> Since we've already decided that 2.1.0 would be moving to Java 1.5 I
> >> can't see the use in hanging onto the 1.4 requirement
> >
> > Let me clarify that I'm fine with moving to Java 1.5 (hurray). My
> > concern was that this change is made between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1, i.e. it's
> > merely the version label that concerns me.
> >
> > From a user's perspective, updating a tool to a new point release should
> > impose no suprises or migration work. But if someone developed a Maven
> > plugin and updated its dependencies from maven-project:2.1.0 to
> > maven-project:2.1.1 and thereby indirectly increased the JRE requirement
> > of this project, he might be suprised. If someone built a project
> > targetting Java 1.4 and has simply configured his JAVA_HOME to point at
> > JDK 1.4 (to catch accidental usage of new API), he will need to
> > configure the bootstrap class path or the toolchains to reach the same
> > effect when migrating from Maven 2.1.0 to 2.1.1.
> >
> > IMHO, it doesn't matter what we previously planned for 2.1 regarding the
> > Java requirement. Reality is that the released Maven 2.1.0 requires only
> > Java 1.4 and it feels odd to me to have any point release of 2.1.x to
> > have higher requirements than the start of this development line.
> >
> > In a related context, MNG-1948 looks like a new feature with significant
> > code changes, so I again wonder whether 2.1.1 is the proper bucket for
> > this instead of 2.2...
> >
> > Enough philosophy from me, the last thing I suggest is that we at least
> > create a JIRA ticket for the Java version bump which shows up in the
> > release notes for users to easily notice.
>
> Very well put Benjamin.
>
> I have no objection to move to 1.5, but we can't do it for a point release.
>
> >
> > Benjamin
> >
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