+1 to dump Java5 compat. In about 2 months, even Java 6 will rapidly become old. We're already using Java 1.7 at our shop, and plan to migrate to 1.8 asap. And we're really not a startup kind of company ;-). And I'm sure the features in 1.8 (compared to the ones in the previous version) is gonna accelerate the move. Sure you'll always companies where migration is said to be hard, but any move being made would be considered hard to absorb by those anyway... :)
Stephen, when talking about version policy in the current context, do you mean something like "any plugin could from now on be released with 1.6+ requirement, you would just have to make sure to bump the MAJOR (or only minor?) version number to acknowledge the change" ? 2014-02-22 21:26 GMT+01:00 Stephen Connolly <stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com >: > If a plugin depends on Maven 2.2.1 through 3.1.1 then we are stuck with > Java 1.5 > > Hence my version policy that you lot are all ignoring commenting on... No > comments means I'll just put it up for a vote ;-) > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On 22 Feb 2014, at 20:10, "Arnaud Héritier" <aherit...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > ;) AFAIR for core yes. New releases (thus 3.2) should be certified 1.6+ > > > > > > For plugins it's another story I suppose depending of the version of > maven core they are supposed to support.. > > — > > Sent from Mailbox for iPhone > > > >> On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 9:04 PM, Jason van Zyl <ja...@tesla.io> wrote: > >> > >> Didn't we decide that everything can be 1.6? I remember because it was > one of Stephen's overly long emails :-) > >> jvz > >>> On Feb 22, 2014, at 11:02 AM, Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >>> > >>> How much longer with this Java 1.5 business? It' a giant pain. > >>> > >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > >>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > > -- > Baptiste <Batmat> MATHUS - http://batmat.net > Sauvez un arbre, > Mangez un castor ! nbsp;! <dev-h...@maven.apache.org> >
