svn commit: r1741763 - /commons/proper/net/trunk/BUILDING.txt

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Author: sebb
Date: Sat Apr 30 13:31:56 2016
New Revision: 1741763

URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1741763&view=rev
Log:
Tweak

Modified:
    commons/proper/net/trunk/BUILDING.txt

Modified: commons/proper/net/trunk/BUILDING.txt
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/commons/proper/net/trunk/BUILDING.txt?rev=1741763&r1=1741762&r2=1741763&view=diff
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--- commons/proper/net/trunk/BUILDING.txt (original)
+++ commons/proper/net/trunk/BUILDING.txt Sat Apr 30 13:31:56 2016
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 The code requires at least Java 1.6 to build.
 
-However, current versions of Maven tend to require at least Java 7.
+However, Maven 3.3.1+ require Java 7
 
 If you want to build and test the code using Java 1.6, use the profile -Pjava-1.6, e.g.
 
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ For setting up your Maven installation t
 
 http://commons.apache.org/commons-parent-pom.html#Testing_with_different_Java_versions
 
+The latest version of Maven that runs under Java 1.6 is 3.2.5 [1]
+
 Building the site will also generally require at least Java 7 to run Maven.
 To build the site from scratch, you can use:
 
@@ -34,3 +36,5 @@ To deploy:
 $ mvn deploy -Prelease -Duser.name=*ASF ID* -Pjava-1.6 [-Ptest-deploy]
 
 The test-deploy profile deploys to target/deploy rather than Nexus
+
+[1] http://maven.apache.org/docs/history.html
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