[sakai2-tcc] Are we supporting Java 1.5 for 2.8?

[Steve Swinsburg]

Yep lets get any required modifications committed into trunk, and enforce 1.6 as soon as possible so we can iron anything out early.

cheers,
Steve


On 19/02/2011, at 2:02 AM, Anthony Whyte wrote:

> I agree with this approach.  We are a bit late in the releasecycle to require Java 6 (which will force us to patch the code).  I do think we should make the required changes to trunk as soon as possible.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Anth
> 
> On Feb 18, 2011, at 9:43 AM, John Bush wrote:
> 
>> This is exactly what I would like to see.  Let's just get it building,
>> which it will after a few things aren't merged.  Its working for me
>> now with the patches from yesterday.  I think its just too late to
>> make the decision to force people off of 1.5, its clear from this
>> discussion that we've haven't set that expectation yet.  Then for 2.9
>> its a different story.
>> 
>> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 7:39 AM, David Horwitz <david.horwitz at uct.ac.za> wrote:
>>> My recommendation:
>>> 
>>> 2.8: recommend 1.6 - code compiles in 1.5
>>> 2.9: require 1.6 - no guarantee  that code will compile/run in 1.5
>>> 
>>> D
>>> 
>>> On 02/18/2011 04:32 PM, Seth Theriault wrote:
>>>> Anthony Whyte wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> If we want to drop 1.5 then we need to make sure that the
>>>>> code compiles after adjusting Maven's compiler plugin
>>>>> settings from 1.5 to 1.6.  Last time I checked (early
>>>>> December) the kernel failed to build due to an issue with
>>>>> kernel util's validater.java due to "unmappable character
>>>>> for encoding UTF-8 (53 cases)."
>>>>> 
>>>> I think we should be clear about what we want to do for 2.8.
>>>> 
>>>> There is a difference between telling people to use 1.6
>>>> (while maintaining the 1.5 source and targets) and forcing the
>>>> use of 1.6 (by changing them).
>>>> 
>>>> Given that we are late in the cycle and we know that (from QA)
>>>> that the current 2.8 code can be built and run in 1.6 --
>>>> albeit with 1.5 source and targets -- I think we should just
>>>> emphatically state the need to use 1.6, rather than force it.
>>>> 
>>>> Seth
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