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


----- Original Message -----
> On 2013-05-30 17:29, Christian Gruber wrote:
> > Or, if maven (or its oem portions) were heavily used in an
> > organization and it depended on Java7, many organizations, even large
> > ones, would bump the version.  Corporate inertia keeps people back,
> > but platform version churn is largely driven by the need to run the
> > tools a business needs to run.  If Maven is strategic to that, it
> > provides pressure to upgrade.
> >
> Hear, hear.
> 
> Another argument is that if there's a need to stay on old software (Java
> 1.6 is old), then by all means, stay with old software. There's no
> requirement to upgrade. But of course, that also means, stay with old
> versions of m2e. So what's the real problem?

That you dont update your JavaVM as fast as you update your tooling stack.

Thats at least what the data shows.

/max

> 
> - thomas
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