Hi Vincent,
before making such a decision I'd like to weigh up pros and cons of such
a proposal. The only pro that I can detect is improved support for
annotations. IIUC, there aren't many language changes between Java 5 and
6, so the benefits to a developer will be small.
The obvious con is that we restrict our user base. Whilst its true that
Java 5 is long out of support from Oracle, there are many other
platforms such as AIX, HP-UX, Solaris etc where installing newer JDKs is
really difficult because of all the pre-requisite Operating System
patches required. Also, Oracle aren't the only JDK vendors and we do
have clients with IBM JDK 5, which is still supported. A lot of bigger
Enterprises won't be able to upgrade from Java 5 to Java 6 across all
platforms and this could restrict our user base quite significantly.
Since the benefit to the developers appears small, I'm inclined not to
support such a motion. I could possibly be convinced that the upgrade
would be more beneficial to developers than I'm currently aware. So
please feel free to convince me :-)
Thanks,
Chris
On 08/10/2013 12:51, Vincent Hennebert wrote:
Hi,
it seems that people are having more and more trouble to compile their
code on a 1.5 JDK. Also, Java 1.5 is getting really old now with the end
of public updates dating as far back as October 2009.
So maybe it’s time to drop support for Java 1.5 and switch to 1.6 as
a minimum requirement for the next versions of XGC, FOP and Batik.
WDYT?
Thanks,
Vincent
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