ok, thanks for the clarification. The system requirements on the download page are correct now. But the README.txt in the distribution is still wrong.
Regards, Arend On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 2:54 PM, Jason van Zyl <ja...@takari.io> wrote: > Olivier fixed the doco so that should do out shortly. > > On Mar 18, 2015, at 9:48 AM, Anders Hammar <and...@hammar.net> wrote: > > > That is correct, the docs haven't been updated. Maven 3.3+ requires JDK > 1.7. > > > > /Anders (mobile) > > Den 18 mar 2015 09:37 skrev "Arend v. Reinersdorff" <ar...@arendvr.com>: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> Maven 3.3.1 requires Java 1.7: > >> - [MNG-5780] - upgrade Java minimum version prerequisite from Java 6 to > >> Java 7 > >> - When I try to run Maven 3.3.1 with Java 1.6 I get the exception: > >> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: > >> org/apache/maven/cli/MavenCli : Unsupported major.minor version 51.0 > >> > >> > >> But the documentation says the system requirements are still at Java > 1.6: > >> - On the download page: > http://maven.apache.org/download.cgi#Requirements > >> - In README.txt when downloading Maven 3.3.1: > >> System Requirements > >> ------------------- > >> JDK: > >> 1.6 or above (this is to execute Maven - it still allows you to build > >> against 1.3 > >> and prior JDK's). > >> > >> I assume the requirement is really Java 1.7 but the documentation has > not > >> been updated? > >> > >> Regards, > >> Arend > >> > > Thanks, > > Jason > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > Jason van Zyl > Founder, Takari and Apache Maven > http://twitter.com/jvanzyl > http://twitter.com/takari_io > --------------------------------------------------------- > > happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will > elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come > and sit softly on your shoulder ... > > -- Thoreau > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > >
