Re: java 1.4 for how long ?

gustav trede wrote:
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> 2009/7/17 John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com <mailto:pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com>>
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> gustav trede wrote:
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> Hello,
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> Sun made 1.4t EOL during 2008, when is pgjdbc codebase planned
> to move forward to 1.5 ?.
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> if anything, it should skip forward to OpenJDK 6
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> 1.5 is going EOL this year, the problem is that real world
> deployments lag behind in upgrading, sometimes for the good reason of
> stability.
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> Moving to 1.6 will cut of more users then 1.5 would do, my personal
> opinion is that it from a community standpoint might be a bit too
> early to drop 1.5 support,
> especially since 1.6 dont offer so much new stuff as 1.5 did vs 1.4 .

I just realized you were talking about JDBC and not PL/Java... I concur
re: 1.5 for JDBC, that has to work with as many different java releases
as possible.