[proposal] java5 as minimal runtime for maven 2.1 (and 2.0.10 ?)

[Stephen Connolly-2]

My only concern would be plugins... but since 2.0.9 locked down the plugin
versions that should not be as big an issue any more

On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 2:31 AM, Jason van Zyl <jason@...> wrote:

> I think the sentiment is fairly clear. I am going to unwind the
> retrotranslating I put in place and leave 2.1 requiring Java 1.5.
>
>
> On 4-May-08, at 1:35 PM, Sejal Patel wrote:
>
>  +1 on maven 2.1
>> -1 on maven 2.0.x (please don't mess with the current maintenance
>> releases.
>> even feature enhancements should be minimal. just fix regressions mostly)
>>
>> On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Arnaud HERITIER <aheritier@...>
>> wrote:
>>
>>  +1 for 2.1
>>>
>>> Arnaud
>>>
>>> On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 12:02 PM, nicolas de loof <nicolas@...>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>  Hello,
>>>>
>>>> As you can read at http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/
>>>> *" J2SE 1.4.2 is in its Java Technology End of Life (EOL) transition
>>>> period*.
>>>> The EOL transition period began Dec, 11 2006 and will complete October
>>>> 30th,
>>>> 2008"
>>>>
>>>> I don't think we have plan yet to release maven 2.1, so I think it would
>>>> be
>>>> a valid to require java 1.5 as minimal runtime.
>>>>
>>>> Main beneficts (IMHO) :
>>>>
>>>> - annotation can replace javadoc-style IoC an Maven plugin declarations
>>>> (code allready available :
>>>> http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAVEN/Java+5+Annotations+for+Plugins)
>>>> - jsr-250 annotations can replace some plexus interfaces ( LogEnabled ->
>>>> @Resource('log') , Initializable --> @PostConstruct ...) and make
>>>> component
>>>> more "standard" and accessible to developpers without plexus knowledge.
>>>> - generics can make the maven model more comprehensible. The current
>>>> "Collection project.getArtifacts()" is not really clear and the fiew
>>>> available javadoc don't help a lot.
>>>>
>>>> Other possible improvements :
>>>>
>>>> - plugin test tool could use jUnit 4 runners to create something
>>>> comparable
>>>> to spring-test-context :
>>>> annotate your plugin test class with @Runwith( "MavenPluginTestRunner" )
>>>> @Pom( "myTestPom.xml" )
>>>> and the test will prepare the plugin set in the test pom and inject it
>>>>
>>> in
>>>
>>>> the test class.
>>>> - benefict from java.util.concurrent to do some tasks in parallel ?
>>>> Example
>>>> : dependencies downloading
>>>> - any other ?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> WDYT ?
>>>>
>>>> Nicolas.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Justice is nothing more than that which is in the greatest self-interest
>> of
>> the largest portion of the population.
>>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jason
>
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> Jason van Zyl
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> jason at sonatype dot com
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