On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Kalle Korhonen
<kalle.o.korho...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sounds like we should back out the hibernate version change then. We
> might need to create a separate java 6 version of tapestry-hibernate
> (we could use classifiers to separate the artifacts at least for
> Maven), can I assume you'll sign up to work on it?

I apologize, I mean a separate tapestry-hibernate4 artifact and we
shouldn't use classifiers for differentiation.

Kalle


> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Ulrich Stärk <u...@spielviel.de> wrote:
>> Why is everybody mixing up JDK version and bytecode versions? True, JDK 5 
>> isn't officially supported
>> anymore and 6 won't be supported soon. I know of companies though that have 
>> separate contracts with
>> Sun/Oracle that ensure support beyond the regular JDK life. But that has 
>> nothing to do with the
>> bytecode version. Even with JDK 7 you can emit bytecode with bytecode 
>> version 49 which is Java 5
>> compatible and will run on any JRE >= Java 5.
>>
>> As long as there are no language features of Java 6 or 7 that we want to use 
>> or some other
>> enhancements we would otherwise miss, I'm against removing Java 5 
>> compatibility. There simply is
>> nothing to be gained, only to be lost. If people are forced to use Java 6 
>> because Hibernate is
>> compiled to output bytecode version 50 so be it. Tapestry compiled with Java 
>> 5 compatibility will
>> still run just fine.
>>
>> Uli
>>
>> On 02.05.2012 19:05, Kalle Korhonen wrote:
>>> I think that's a pretty reasonable argument for just moving to 1.6 and
>>> be done with it. How many of those that are stuck with Java 5 would
>>> actually ever upgrade to the latest (and at the moment, still
>>> unreleased) versions of Tapestry? Now that must be a very low number.
>>> If you were that progressive that you'd use T5.3, there's still plenty
>>> of lifespan left in that branch. Everybody starting with Tapestry now
>>> would almost certainly be on 1.6 or 1.7.
>>>
>>> Kalle
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 9:32 AM, trsvax <trs...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I voted +1 even though I have a workstation that is stuck on a particular
>>>> Java major/minor version because I have a dependency on some mainframe Java
>>>> browser plugin that only works on one specific Java release.
>>>>
>>>> I would say there is no reason to encourage this behavior and I suspect the
>>>> number of people stuck on Java 1.5 that are interested in trying Tapestry 
>>>> is
>>>> a low number (perhaps 0). For those stuck on 1.5 that would like to upgrade
>>>> (and I'm one of them) life is tough but I'd prefer not to be the one 
>>>> holding
>>>> things back.
>>>>
>>>> In my case I develop on 1.5 but my build machine has 1.6 and I deploy on
>>>> 1.6. If I have to choose between mainframe access and upgrading I'll
>>>> probably pick upgrading.
>>>>
>>>> Just my 2 cents.
>>>>
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