We have updated the minimum required execution environment to Java 1.6 for
all Mylyn bundles in master as discussed on this bug:

 383907: change minimum required JRE to 1.6
 https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=383907

With the next weekly build Mylyn bundles will no longer load on Java 1.5.

Steffen


On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Alvaro Sanchez <[email protected]> wrote:

> The following Bug is now opened to capture the discussion.
>
> 383907: Consider moving minimum required JRE to 1.6
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=383907
>
>
> /Alvaro
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Steffen Pingel <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Starting with Eclipse 4.2 the platform now also requires 1.6. Since
>> Mylyn isn't targeted at running on embedded devices where availability
>> of newer JDKs could be an issue I'm +1 for moving everything up to 1.6
>> which has been out for a long time.
>>
>> Thanks for bringing that up. Can you file a bug to capture the discussion?
>>
>> Steffen
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Alvaro Sanchez <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > Most of Mylyn components are designed to run using JRE 1.5 or later,
>> >  however there are few limitations starting to show up e.g. The Mylyn
>> Gerrit
>> > connector runs on 1.6 and later, and R4E faces some limitations with an
>> > Orbit bundle [1].
>> >
>> > Since J2SE reached end of life in 2008,
>> > Are there any concerns on moving the minimum required JRE version to
>> 1.6 ?
>> >
>> > /Alvaro
>> >
>> >
>> > [1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=362370
>> >
>> >
>> >
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