I just wanted to state for the record that I'm not one of the Avro folks. :-) I'm just a guy who wanted to take XML documents conforming to an external schema and store them in both Kafka and Hadoop!
On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 4:37 PM, Andreas Veithen <[email protected]> wrote: > Anyway the current XmlSchema build configured on Jenkins already uses > Java 1.6. IIRC Java 1.5 is no longer supported by the Jenkins version > we are using. Also, on some platforms such as Mac OS X, Java 1.5 is no > longer available. Therefore, maintaining Java 1.5 compatibility would > require some extra work (such as setting up Animal Sniffer) and we > should drop it. > > Andreas > > On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 9:22 PM, Daniel Kulp <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > We got a nice contribution from the Avro folks to add to XmlSchema. > It’s a whole new module with new functionality so not really something for > a “patch” release. I’d like to go ahead and get it committed and prepare > a 2.2.0 release. > > > > As part of this, I’d like to drop support for Java 5 for 2.2.0 on. The > new module requires JAXB to be available which is much simpler with Java6 > (built into the JDK). Otherwise, we have to add some profiles and > conditional dependencies and such to the poms which kind of sucks. > > > > We can easily release a 2.1.1 if we need a specific fix for the 2.1.x > series that would still run on Java 5. However, I’m not really sure that > is necessary as the downstream projects that are actually needing this and > are actually making releases have moved forward with Java6+. > > > > Thoughts? > > > > -- > > Daniel Kulp > > [email protected] - http://dankulp.com/blog > > Talend Community Coder - http://coders.talend.com > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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] > >
