I think I'll poll the user list and see how many actually use 1.4 still anyway. It'd be educational.
So far, I think Ari made the best point in that I wouldn't want to hold the 3.0 release up for this. It's more that if it doesn't happen now, I suspect it won't for a couple years. That's not necessarily terrible, but generics would be nice for sure and the new concurrent API could yield significant speed improvements. -- Kevin > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrus Adamchik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2007 2:22 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Java 5 > > Yeah, I'd think we should preserve the 1.4 compatibility for 3.0 > Cayenne Persistence API (vs. JPA that is 1.5 by definition). > Personally I hope I'll be off 1.4 in a matter of months on all my > projects, but I am sure lots of users will appreciate us preserving > it for another year or so. > > I don't care much for generics personally, but since they are here to > stay, we'll have to make Cayenne generics-friendly at some point, I > just suggest to postpone that decision. > > Andrus > > P.S. OT - Wonder when Apple releases a decent version of JDK 6 for OS > X that is compatible with Sun JDK 6 final. The current developer > preview Java 6 is just that - a preview and has incompatible API that > makes it impossible to develop on Mac and deploy on any other > platform (at least for the SQL packages that we care about).
