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Re: [eclipse-pmc] JDT/UI requests approval for raising required Execution Environment to J2SE-1.5

Markus,

the PMC has discussed this yesterday in its meeting and approved it.

Dani

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  |Markus Keller/Zurich/IBM@IBMCH                                                                                                                    |
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  |eclipse-pmc@xxxxxxxxxxx                                                                                                                           |
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  |05.07.2010 14:51                                                                                                                                  |
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  |[eclipse-pmc] JDT/UI requests approval for raising required Execution Environment to J2SE-1.5                                                     |
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JDT/UI requests approval for raising the required Execution Environment of
org.eclipse.jdt.ui and all dependent projects to J2SE-1.5.

Reasons include:
- Quality of the UI: Selfhosting on 1.5 will allow us to detect and fix
gaps in our 1.5 story that we wouldn't find otherwise.
- Use of new APIs: J2SE-1.5 allows us to remove workarounds, e.g. for
UTF16 support, use timeouts in http requests, etc.
- JDT/UI is typically used on desktop machines for which JDK 1.4 is no
longer available, so the change will only affect very few people.

Currently, the affected plug-ins are:

org.eclipse.jdt.ui
org.eclipse.jdt.ui.tests
org.eclipse.jdt.ui.tests.refactoring
org.eclipse.jdt.text.tests
org.eclipse.jdt.junit

The JUnit runtime plug-ins and org.eclipse.jdt.junit.core will keep their
EEs.

The following plug-ins depend on org.eclipse.jdt.ui and can also move to
1.5 "for free".
org.eclipse.ant.ui
org.eclipse.jdt.debug.ui
org.eclipse.pde.ui + dependencies


Thanks,
Markus
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