Re: [ jEdit-users ] [ jEdit-devel ] should jEdit 5.1 depend on Java 6 or 7?

[Robert L. <rob...@gm...>]

My experience is maintaining code that is based on obsolete foundations goes
from inconvenience, to serious problems to impossible to maintain. 

 

Allowing outdated libraries will cause deprecated functions that
exponentially increase over time, which in turn will cause users to install
incorrect mismatched components and cause confusion resulting in increased
support problems. Users that are unfamiliar with the intricacies and past
decision paths will try to get results of new functionality but may be
running older code bases. The difficulty to support versions in varying
degrees of obsolescence and the confusion generated among the users cannot
be overstated.

 

jEdit is not a commercial product where the vendor can be expected to expend
extreme efforts to maintain the customer base, since it is a volunteer
system in my estimation the extra effort must be made by the end user and
not the developers.

 

Regards

 

Robert Lewis

 

From: Daniel Lindgren [mailto:bd...@gm...] 
Sent: Monday, April 15, 2013 11:45 AM
To: Alan Ezust
Cc: jedit-users
Subject: Re: [ jEdit-users ] [ jEdit-devel ] should jEdit 5.1 depend on Java
6 or 7?

 

Java 6 has reached end of life and Oracle will not release any more (public)
updates: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html

 

My humble opinion is that new jEdit versions shouldn't retain support for
Java versions that have reached EOL. Users that can't upgrade to Java 7 can
still use jEdit 5.0.

 

Cheers,

Daniel

 

2013/4/15 Alan Ezust <ala...@gm...>

I am posting this question to jEdit users. How many of you think it is
important that jEdit 5.1 support Java 6?

Pros for Require Java7 now:
    we can set template types for some of the existing java API classes.
    some of the mac issues will be simplified. 
Votes: Dale Anson, Thomas Meyer

Don't require Java7 yet:
    mac users can still use java6 which is available via the apple store
while java7 is not.
Votes: Eric Berry, Alan Ezust, matthieu








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