On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 5:01 AM, Chris Bowditch <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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. > There are a few new, very useful APIs in Java 6, such as: - String.isEmpty() - Arrays.copyOf(), copyOfRange() - Collections.newSetFromMap() - Deque More differences are described at: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/features-141434.html > > 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 >> >> ------------------------------**------------------------------**--------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: >> general-unsubscribe@**xmlgraphics.apache.org<[email protected]> >> For additional commands, e-mail: >> general-help@xmlgraphics.**apache.org<[email protected]> >> >> >> >> > > ------------------------------**------------------------------**--------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > general-unsubscribe@**xmlgraphics.apache.org<[email protected]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > general-help@xmlgraphics.**apache.org<[email protected]> > >
