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Posted to dev@myfaces.apache.org by Andrew Robinson <an...@gmail.com> on 2009/06/17 22:29:18 UTC
[Trinidad] JDK5 EOL, upgrade to JDK6?
JDK 5 can no longer be downloaded without stepping through hoops to
try to get it as it has reached its end of life.
I'd vote to make JDK 6 the minimum JDK for Trinidad trunk.
What do others think?
-Andrew
Re: [Trinidad] JDK5 EOL, upgrade to JDK6?
Posted by Jan-Kees van Andel <ja...@gmail.com>.
Do you mean the @Override annotation on interface implementing
methods? Yeah, that's annoying.
But IMHO no reason to force users to move to JDK 6. The companies I
see, are currently using 5 (some even use 1.4).
What feature of JDK 6 do you want to use? Besides the (Concurrent)
Collections API I don't know any features that are of much use for
Trinidad.
I think it's very important for any software library to keep its users
happy. Forcing users into a new JDK if they want to upgrade (maybe
because they are interested in a bug fix) won't make them very happy.
/JK
2009/6/19 Andrew Robinson <an...@gmail.com>:
> We currently force JDK 5 in the maven build because we were having
> problems with developers checking in JDK6 specific code and not
> realizing it.
>
> -Andrew
>
Re: [Trinidad] JDK5 EOL, upgrade to JDK6?
Posted by Andrew Robinson <an...@gmail.com>.
We currently force JDK 5 in the maven build because we were having
problems with developers checking in JDK6 specific code and not
realizing it.
-Andrew
2009/6/19 Bruno Aranda <br...@gmail.com>:
> +0 I don't really see why we need to force the use of JDK 6 unless
> there are features for that specific JDK that we want to introduce in
> trinidad. We still have some servers in our institution using JDK 5
> (and with apps using trinidad) and although we are updating everything
> we are not there yet.
>
> In any case, I develop already with JDK 6, but I compile the apps with
> JDK 5 for those servers.
>
> Even if most users use JDK 6 and it is difficult to get the JDK 5,
> what should we drop support for the JDK 5 if we don't use any specific
> feature of JDK 6? Or are we planning to use them? The only problem now
> is that we have to be aware of using JDK 5 when deploying to the
> public repos or doing distributions, right?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bruno
>
> 2009/6/19 Martin Kočí <Ma...@aura.cz>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> we use Trinidad on AIX with JDK 6 with no problems although I don't know
>> if the JDK6 is default for AIX.
>>
>>
>> Werner Punz píše v Čt 18. 06. 2009 v 16:21 +0200:
>>> Andrew Robinson schrieb:
>>> > JDK 5 can no longer be downloaded without stepping through hoops to
>>> > try to get it as it has reached its end of life.
>>> >
>>> > I'd vote to make JDK 6 the minimum JDK for Trinidad trunk.
>>> >
>>> > What do others think?
>>> >
>>> OSX still does not have JDK6 as default, although it exists...
>>> Dunno how it looks for other operating systems like AIX!
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
Re: [Trinidad] JDK5 EOL, upgrade to JDK6?
Posted by Bruno Aranda <br...@gmail.com>.
+0 I don't really see why we need to force the use of JDK 6 unless
there are features for that specific JDK that we want to introduce in
trinidad. We still have some servers in our institution using JDK 5
(and with apps using trinidad) and although we are updating everything
we are not there yet.
In any case, I develop already with JDK 6, but I compile the apps with
JDK 5 for those servers.
Even if most users use JDK 6 and it is difficult to get the JDK 5,
what should we drop support for the JDK 5 if we don't use any specific
feature of JDK 6? Or are we planning to use them? The only problem now
is that we have to be aware of using JDK 5 when deploying to the
public repos or doing distributions, right?
Cheers,
Bruno
2009/6/19 Martin Kočí <Ma...@aura.cz>:
> Hi,
>
> we use Trinidad on AIX with JDK 6 with no problems although I don't know
> if the JDK6 is default for AIX.
>
>
> Werner Punz píše v Čt 18. 06. 2009 v 16:21 +0200:
>> Andrew Robinson schrieb:
>> > JDK 5 can no longer be downloaded without stepping through hoops to
>> > try to get it as it has reached its end of life.
>> >
>> > I'd vote to make JDK 6 the minimum JDK for Trinidad trunk.
>> >
>> > What do others think?
>> >
>> OSX still does not have JDK6 as default, although it exists...
>> Dunno how it looks for other operating systems like AIX!
>>
>>
>
>
Re: [Trinidad] JDK5 EOL, upgrade to JDK6?
Posted by Martin Kočí <Ma...@aura.cz>.
Hi,
we use Trinidad on AIX with JDK 6 with no problems although I don't know
if the JDK6 is default for AIX.
Werner Punz píše v Čt 18. 06. 2009 v 16:21 +0200:
> Andrew Robinson schrieb:
> > JDK 5 can no longer be downloaded without stepping through hoops to
> > try to get it as it has reached its end of life.
> >
> > I'd vote to make JDK 6 the minimum JDK for Trinidad trunk.
> >
> > What do others think?
> >
> OSX still does not have JDK6 as default, although it exists...
> Dunno how it looks for other operating systems like AIX!
>
>
Re: [Trinidad] JDK5 EOL, upgrade to JDK6?
Posted by Werner Punz <we...@gmail.com>.
Andrew Robinson schrieb:
> JDK 5 can no longer be downloaded without stepping through hoops to
> try to get it as it has reached its end of life.
>
> I'd vote to make JDK 6 the minimum JDK for Trinidad trunk.
>
> What do others think?
>
OSX still does not have JDK6 as default, although it exists...
Dunno how it looks for other operating systems like AIX!
Re: [Trinidad] JDK5 EOL, upgrade to JDK6?
Posted by Matthias Wessendorf <ma...@apache.org>.
in fact, I don't even have it installed at all :-)
So, I am up for a vote like that. I am actually interested
in that result. I don't mind to *only* support JDK 6 ...
Maybe we should wait one more release ? My plan is
to do a release in July, when I am back in Germany
(as I have my gpg keys not on my notebook)
-M
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Gary Kind<ga...@oracle.com> wrote:
> absolutely.
>
> Gary
>
> Andrew Robinson wrote:
>>
>> JDK 5 can no longer be downloaded without stepping through hoops to
>> try to get it as it has reached its end of life.
>>
>> I'd vote to make JDK 6 the minimum JDK for Trinidad trunk.
>>
>> What do others think?
>>
>> -Andrew
>>
>
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Re: [Trinidad] JDK5 EOL, upgrade to JDK6?
Posted by Gary Kind <ga...@oracle.com>.
absolutely.
Gary
Andrew Robinson wrote:
> JDK 5 can no longer be downloaded without stepping through hoops to
> try to get it as it has reached its end of life.
>
> I'd vote to make JDK 6 the minimum JDK for Trinidad trunk.
>
> What do others think?
>
> -Andrew
>