Re: Timeline to drop Java 6 support for Proton?

2015-07-08 Thread Robbie Gemmell
Epic bump. As per https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PROTON-935 the build is currently broken again on Java 6. We need to either update it to compile on Java 6, since that is still the builds compiler source/target, or alternatively drop support for Java 6 and require Java 7. I'd do the

Re: Timeline to drop Java 6 support for Proton?

2015-07-08 Thread Timothy Bish
+1 for dropping Java 6 from future releases. On 07/08/2015 09:59 AM, Robbie Gemmell wrote: Epic bump. As per https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PROTON-935 the build is currently broken again on Java 6. We need to either update it to compile on Java 6, since that is still the builds

Re: Timeline to drop Java 6 support for Proton?

2015-07-08 Thread Rafael Schloming
I'm +1 on dropping Java 6. --Rafael On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 6:59 AM, Robbie Gemmell robbie.gemm...@gmail.com wrote: Epic bump. As per https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PROTON-935 the build is currently broken again on Java 6. We need to either update it to compile on Java 6, since that

Re: Timeline to drop Java 6 support for Proton?

2015-07-08 Thread Robbie Gemmell
Ok, I have updated the pom file to use Java 7 for the compiler source and target, and updated the remaining jobs on the ASF Jenkins CI to also use Java 7 (having changed the deploy job previously because Java6 isnt able to work with the recent new SSL proxy). Currently still failing due the tests

Timeline to drop Java 6 support for Proton?

2014-09-24 Thread Robbie Gemmell
Hi all, With Qpid 0.30 we have made the move to requiring Java 7+. Currently, proton still allows for use of Java 6, so I wonder what peoples thoughts are on the timing of a similar move for Proton? I'd personally like to do it soon since Java 6 is EOL, but if not then I think we should at least

Re: Timeline to drop Java 6 support for Proton?

2014-09-24 Thread Clebert Suconic
This is just testing... can't you have a java7 tests folder? you would be able to still have java7 specific tests. On Sep 24, 2014, at 7:13 AM, Robbie Gemmell robbie.gemm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, With Qpid 0.30 we have made the move to requiring Java 7+. Currently, proton still allows

Re: Timeline to drop Java 6 support for Proton?

2014-09-24 Thread Robbie Gemmell
The compilation issue I missed in the patch was test-only this time, but it could have as easily been in non-test code. The other tests now failing might actually point to some functionality under test not working under Java 6 at runtime though, which is more of an issue. If the tests showing it