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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
