Re: Future directions

Hi Richard,

> Richard Frovarp wrote:
>> What direction should we take this project? Last summer we decided  
>> after releasing 2.0.3 we would up our Java version from 1.4 to  
>> something more modern. However, now 1.5 is no longer supported. I  
>> would prefer moving to 1.6. WDOT?
>>
>> What is the status of 2.2? What work remains? Should we be focusing  
>> our effort on completing that?
>>
>> Richard
> So from everyone that responded, we're all good with moving to Java  
> 1.6. Should we do that with 2.0.4, or should we create a 2.1 branch  
> to migrate to Java 1.6? I would like to get to work on integrating  
> Alexander's GSOC project into our current code base, and his code  
> requires 1.5 at a minimum. This is one of my reasonings for moving  
> our current code base.

I would prefer a 2.1 branch for the migration to Java 1.6 , because  
bug fixes may be necessary for the 2.0.3 release. In this case  we can  
release 2.0.4 with Java 1.4

Rudolf