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

[Steve Swinsburg]

JIRA ticket here:

https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-20089

I'll try to link all of the others.

cheers,
Steve


On 21/02/2011, at 9:57 PM, Jean-Francois Leveque wrote:

> Let's make this a 2.9 blocker and work on this at least as soon as 2.8.0 is released.
> 
> Who creates the issue in JIRA?
> 
> Cheers,
> J-F
> 
> On 19/02/2011 01:15, Steve Swinsburg wrote:
>> 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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