I think the argument is the other way. You should be explaining why you wouldn't simply just move to Java 5.
+1 to JDK 1.5 minimum. Hen On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi, > > no, this is not about generics or enums or ... > > This time it is methods added in the classlib, in particular > java.util.zip.Inflater#getBytesRead and friends which return longs > rather than ints that are returned by getTotalIn. > > Since ZIP entry size is an unsigned four byte int even without Zip64 > support it simply doesn't fit into an int and some bugs cannot properly > be fixed by using the Java4 method. (COMPRESS-129 is one). > > Things will become worse with Zip64 as we'd need unsigned longs but I'm > willing to accept that as theoretical cases. > > The alternative would be to use some reflection magic inside the ZIP > package (which I'm willing to do). > > Stefan > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
