For the record, I'm -1 to abandoning JDK1.2 support in [collections] ;-) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rodney Waldhoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For the record, while I'm +0 on moving toward JDK 1.5 support within > collections, I'm certainly -1 on abandoning JDK 1.4 support in the near > future. > > - Rod > > On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Stephen Colebourne wrote: > > > While release 3.1 is being tidied up (still time to vote ;-), I thought I'd > > just put out a note about JDK1.5. > > > > One of the key enhancements in JDK1.5 is generics which allows typed classes > > using the angle bracket notation. The biggest area this impacts is > > collections. Clearly questions have to be raised as to how this affects > > [collections]. > > > > So far, I have done no work to see if [collections] will compile under > > JDK1.5. My expectation is that it will, but there are no guarantees. > > > > To take full advantage of generics will involve a considerable rewrite of > > [collections]. It will affect every class, and produce a version that only > > compiles on JDK1.5. I have no doubt that Sun spent many mandays changing the > > JDK classes to achieve this update. > > > > Personally, I have no plans to update [collections] to JDK1.5 (no itch, too > > much effort). If anyone else does, feel free to come in and either change > > [collections], or (more likely) create a new [collections15] project. > > > > Stephen > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
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