Bump target/source in V3 POM?

Cantor, Scott cantor.2 at osu.edu
Tue Feb 26 10:09:05 EST 2013


On 2/26/13 3:57 AM, "Ian Young" <ian at iay.org.uk> wrote:

>Just for the avoidance of doubt, we're talking about changing both the
>source and class file levels to 1.7 ?

Yes, at least until we were to determine that no Java 7 library features
were worth giving up class compatibility for. That's assuming the new
language features don't require 1.7 class format anyway.

>For the things I'm involved in, this will mean the next pre-1.0 version
>of the MDA will be dependent on 1.7, and I'll add a Jira case so that
>gets reflected in the release notes.  As I've switched the parent POM for
>xmlsectool back to the V2 parent POM (and I'm assuming that we have no
>plans at present to move to 1.7 for the V2 projects?) the next version of
>that will still be runnable on 1.6.  I'll add a similar Jira case for a
>future release, though, as the plan has always been to rebase xmlsectool
>on our other code in a more direct way (e.g., via the MDA framework).

No plans to rebase 2.x on 1.7, no.

-- Scott




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