Re: [m2e-users] moving m2e to java7 past kepler sr0

[Tonny Madsen <tonny.madsen@xxxxxxxxx>]

No so... Remember that Eclipse can be installed everywhere - Java cannot. And often you can upgrade many features of Eclipse across the major releases. There might be parts of m2e that will depend on the Kepler platform... but nothing obvious comes to mind... /Tonny

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On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 9:55 PM, Thomas Hallgren <thomas@xxxxxxx> wrote:

If an IT-department is unwilling to upgrade the JVM's, what makes you think they'd be willing to upgrade Eclipse and m2e? I'd consider them both vital part of the "locked down" development platforms. So why is this a problem?

- thomas

On 2013-05-30 20:59, Tonny Madsen wrote:

Igor,

You write: "Does anyone have a good reasons to stay with java 6 past this coming

June? ("my IT department is too retarded to allow java7" is probably not

a good reason)."

I don't know if you ever worked in the IT department of a large bank, offshore consultancy company or a similar institution, but... these organizations want to control the amount of support and maintenance by locking down the used platforms. "Retarded"??? I'm pretty sure most IT people would make the same choices given the available resources in the IT departments!

Java 7 might make your life easier, but is that really reason enough to alienate an insignificant part of your users?

/Tonny

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On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 4:10 AM, Igor Fedorenko <igor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'd like to propose moving m2e to require java7 execution environment
after Kepler SR0 is out. I am getting really addicted to
try-with-resources syntax [1], and with java6 past it's eol [2] already,
I see little/no reasons to stick with this version any longer.

Does anyone have a good reasons to stay with java 6 past this coming
June? ("my IT department is too retarded to allow java7" is probably not
a good reason).

[1] http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/exceptions/tryResourceClose.html
[2] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html

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