Hi all,
this morning I was about to upgrade some dependencies in the trunk
(mainly due to the fresh release of CXF 3.0.0): while many of them were
upgraded. I had to give up with Commons DBCP since their latest stable
release 2.0 requires Java 7 [1].
Now, since support for Java 6 was dropped a long while ago [1], and
since I can see many other ASF projects setting Java 7 as their minimum
requirement (besides Commons DBCP 2.0, also Tomcat >= 8.0, Wicket 7, CXF
is discussing about this step [3]), I would like to propose to switch to
Java 7 as minimum requirement for the trunk.
WDYT?
Regards.
[1] http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-dbcp/
[2] https://blogs.oracle.com/java/entry/end_of_public_updates_for
[3]
http://cxf.547215.n5.nabble.com/DISCUSS-Short-term-plans-branching-td5744177.html
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Francesco Chicchiriccò
Tirasa - Open Source Excellence
http://www.tirasa.net/
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member, Syncope PMC chair, Cocoon PMC, Olingo PMC
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