[sakai2-tcc] Java 1.6 and Sakai 2.9

[Berg, Alan]

I agree

Alan

Alan Berg
QA Director - The Sakai Foundation

Senior Developer / Quality Assurance
Group Education and Research Services
Central Computer Services
University of Amsterdam

http://home.uva.nl/a.m.berg
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Sent: 10 November 2010 17:42
To: John A. Lewis
Cc: sakai2-tcc at collab.sakaiproject.org
Subject: Re: [sakai2-tcc] Java 1.6 and Sakai 2.9

I agree.  It's not doing anyone a service to continue to support it.  It just adds more work for QA/dev and solves no real problem (that I can think of) by supporting it.

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 9:39 AM, John A. Lewis <jlewis at unicon.net<mailto:jlewis at unicon.net>> wrote:
Given that Java 5 hit its "End of Service Life" date on October 30, 2009
(see http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html), I think it
would be irresponsible us to continue to endorse its usage in 2011.


On 11/10/2010 09:26 AM, Seth Theriault wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The hybrid artifact Java version mismatch in trunk reminds me
> that we probably need to deciede which version of Java we are
> using going forward.
>
> For 2.7.1 and probably 2.8, we recommended 1.6, but left the
> possibility of using 1.5 out there. I don't think we can maintain
> this situation.
>
> What do people think about moving fully to 1.6 in trunk
> (maintaining the workarounds)?
>
> Seth
>
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