Chris -

Thanks for the speedy reply.

There was a little miscommunication.  I meant to enter a JIRA issue to
switch to 1.4, not 1.5.  If I'm not mistaken, there are 15-20 source files
that contain collections with type specifications, and will therefore not
compile in 1.4.)

Although it will pain me to remove the type specifications ;), I volunteer
to do so for the greater good.

- Keith



Chris Mattmann wrote:
> 
> Hi Keith,
> 
>  I think at this point, it would be a waste of your time to do the work to
> convert the code to 1.5. Since it's really a project decision, when the
> project is ready to move to 1.5 (which it doesn't seem like it is yet),
> then
> it would probably make sense at that time to do it, rather than to do it
> now, and watch your patch widdle away and become out of date with each
> code
> change. So, IMO I wouldn't worry about patching the code to use 1.5...yet
> :)
> 
>  As for the JIRA issue, I think it would be a good idea to track (say, as
> a
> JIRA "task") the desire to move the code to 1.5. Then we (the developers
> and
> community) could vote on the issue, and track it.
> 
>  Thanks!
> 
> Cheers,
>   Chris
> 
> 
> 
> On 9/10/07 9:36 AM, "kbennett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> All -
>> 
>> My preference would be to go to 1.5, to use generics, simpler loop
>> syntax,
>> and other new features, but it sounds like the concensus is to stay
>> compatible with 1.4.  If that is the case, would it be helpful for me to
>> enter a JIRA issue for this?  And make the source code changes?
>> 
>> - Keith Bennett
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Thilo Goetz wrote:
>>> 
>>> Bertrand Delacretaz wrote:
>>>> On 6/13/07, Jukka Zitting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> ...Do you think we should require Java 5 in Tika, or should we support
>>>>> also Java 1.4?...
>>>> 
>>>> I think it would be wise for the Tika *framework* to work with Java
>>>> 1.4.
>>>> 
>>>> Specific plugins can require higher versions, but requiring 1.5 for
>>>> the framework might be too limiting at the moment.
>>>> 
>>>> -Bertrand
>>> 
>>> I agree.  UIMA is also still on Java 1.4, and I think we'll probably
>>> stay
>>> there at least for the rest of the year.  So it would be good if the
>>> basic
>>> framework could work with 1.4.
>>> 
>>> --Thilo
>>> 
>>> 
> 
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