On Wed, 4 Jan 2006, Arnaud Vandyck wrote:
I'm surprised but I don't know 1.5 at all ;-). Serialization and introspections exist until 1.2. Anyway, I don't know 1.5 ;-)
1.5 allows typed container classes, basically, so if you have an empty Vector in 1.4, or a method which takes a vector, you can't say what type it would contain. Even if you have an actual vector containing actual objects you have to inspect every one of them to make sure the typing is correct.
Did you file a bug report to classpath? If you could, it'd be cool.
It's not really a bug, just they are implementing bits as they go along. It's been implemented in CVS now (at least according to the implementation coverage graphs), so filing a bug that its not been implemented isn't really useful. It's just not been released.
There is no virtual package for jse5 (or j2se5.0 or j2se1.5 or whatever) and versionned virtual packages are IMHO useless and should be removed. So you have to depend on explicit j5se0: the one from Sun and the one from IBM.
OK, there's java1-runtime and java2-runtime, I assume at somepoint when all the generics and stuff are packaged there will be a java5-runtime. Build-Depends will have to be something complicated though.
About the name of the package, I don't like the idea of two packages with different version of java so I suggest you upload the 1.4 package in unstable and the 1.5 in experimental with the same name but increment the version number of the package. (It'll also be less work for the ftp masters).
Hmm... its likely to be a while before java 1.5 makes it into main, so the 1.4 backport will be there for a while, but on the other had I'd like the 1.5 one to be available. Experimental is a nice solution for this. I'm just wondering whether you'd ever want them both installed. Currently the 1.5 bindings are not backwards compatible with 1.4 ones. I might be able to fix this, but that means you want the 1.4 ones installed at the same time as the 1.5 ones when you have some apps written against each bindings. They both work with the 1.5 VMs though. I also think its possible that even when 1.5 is in main, people will still want to write for 1.4-only for a while. Matt -- Matthew Johnson http://www.matthew.ath.cx/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
