Re: [linux-distros-dev] Specfile editor minimal jvm requirement

[Andrew Overholt <overholt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 11:00 +0200, Alexander Kurtakov wrote:
> I want to propose bumping the minimal java requirement to java 1.5. My opinion 
> is that this should happen for two reasons:
> 1. Linux distros are not shipping java 1.4 anymore. We (mandriva) have sun 
> java 1.5 and 1.6 and icedtea-1.7 as a main jvm (and other classpath based 
> jvms, which also have 1.5 apis). So developing for 1.4 is becoming harder - 
> even if you are not using java 5 syntax some apis from java 1.5 is slipping.
> 2. As a side effect this will allow us to modernize our api.
> 
> Any comments, objections?

I'm fine with moving to 1.5.

Andrew