Am 10.01.2014 17:03, schrieb Richard Eckart de Castilho: > +1 to move to 6 or 7. It seems to me that projects are on the move to 7 now > anyways. > I just upgraded DKPro Core trunk to Java 7 because we start having > dependencies > that are built with Java 7. > > Personally, I'd suggest upgrading to the level that is necessary. E.g. if you > need > features from Java 6 but not from Java 7, then going just to 6 would imho be > better.
Then it will be java 6, I guess :-) Peter > -- Richard > > On 10.01.2014, at 13:53, Martin Toepfer <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> +1 to move to Java 6. We sometimes use Ruta without the Eclipse workbench in >> applications. Java 7 would also be fine, however, I think we should not move >> to Java 8 until required. >> >> -- Martin >> >>> + 1 to move to Java 6 or Java 7 (or Java 8, GA due in mid-March). >>> >>> Here's my rationale (which will probably expose some of my ignorance about >>> the >>> Ruta details :-) ): >>> >>> Ruta is an Eclispe workbench. This means that the way you use it is to run >>> Eclipse, and then Ruta runs "within it". [If Ruta is a thing which is used >>> via >>> being embedded into other systems, then the argument doesn't apply]. >>> >>> So, forcing a dependency on Java 7 or 8 means you have to run just one app, >>> namely, Eclipse, on that Java. And Eclipse runs fine on Java 8 (candidates) >>> already :-). >>> >>> So it's unlikely that will be much of an issue for your customers. >>> >>> This is in contrast to other deployments of UIMA things, where they're more >>> likely (possibly) integrated into other systems, and those systems would >>> need (a >>> lot of testing- investment) to move to more recent versions of Java. >>> >>> -Marshall >>> On 1/10/2014 7:04 AM, Peter Klügl wrote: >>>> I know we already have talked about the strategy of the required java >>>> version, but I think I have seen that ducc depends on java 6. >>>> >>>> I would like to move ruta also to java 6 since I could really need some >>>> methods only available in java 6. >>>> >>>> Opinions? >>>> >>>> Peter
