I fully agree with you and I'm actually of the opinion that the Java community has a responsibility to provide enough reasons for those on older Java platforms to upgrade. But as long as we provide libraries etc that are Java 1.4 compatible, there might not be enough reasons. I'm sure there are lots of developers out there trying to explain to their managers that they need to upgrade, and if they could say "we need this to use the new cool and wicket-fast Maven Indexer release" (maybe they need something else as well) that might be what makes the upgrade happen.
But, we did touch on this topic before and the consensus was to leave it on Java 5 level. I'm fine with that although it might not be along my aggressive thinking. /Anders PS. Care to create a Java 7 fork of it? ;-) On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Tamás Cservenák <[email protected]> wrote: > Actually, my hope was to have someone here say "c'mon, not bumping to > Java6? Are you nuts?" and then continue with, "listen, you code _today_ > something that will be hopefully used 3-4 years from today. But, you are > _prevented_ to leave something that is already dead _today_ for 3 years > (will be 6-7 years during hopeful use of this release), you are prevented > to bump the source to something that _will be dead_ in months from > _today_... it does not make sense, especially as this is a major 5.x > release....". Also, someone else could chime in with "those locked to java > 5 and java 4 should seriously stop and think a bit". And another with "we > [ASF] are an open, non-profit OSS forge, doing development for our own sake > and love. so did the company [since it's not a natural person I hope] > making you wont-fix this Java6 bump at least a golden sponsor of next > upcoming ApacheCon?" and so on :D > > etc. > > > Thanks, > ~t~ > > > > > On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Anders Hammar <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Should MINDEXER-60 really have a fix version as it is won't fix? It >> could trick people just browsing the list of tickets associated with >> this relaese to think this has been introduced. >> >> /Anders >> >> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Tamás Cservenák <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Howdy, >> > >> > there are a notable changes in trunk of MI: >> > >> https://jira.codehaus.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&jqlQuery=project+%3D+MINDEXER+AND+fixVersion+%3D+%225.0.0%22+AND+status+%3D+Closed+ORDER+BY+priority+DESC >> > >> > https://github.com/apache/maven-indexer/commits/trunk?page=1 >> > >> > >> > So, I'd like to spin a release of it. >> > >> > Any objections to this? Any last minute wish? >> > >> > >> > Thanks, >> > ~t~ >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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]
