Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:


Paulex Yang wrote:
Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:


Paulex Yang wrote:
Mikhail Loenko wrote:
I'm ok with that timeline. We probably need goals for "dotted"
releases also (like 5.1 where we can improve for example performance)
I'm not sure, but I thought we can only release 5.0_01 if Sun didn't have 5.1?

Why not?

There is a version of the spec, and a version of the implementation, which are different.
If so, I prefer to Harmony 1.0(SE 5.0 compatible), 1.1(SE 5.0 compatible with performance enhancement) just like what Geronmo does, rather than 5.0, 5.1, which is confusing.

I think we should consider 5.0, 5.1 simply for marketing reasons and clarity.

If I tell you that I'm running my program under "Harmony 5.1.2", you know exactly what spec version of Java I'm using, so you don't have to do the math to figure it out. Yeah, it's easy for 5, but once we have 7, that will have things like "Harmony 3.2.1" ?

I think it might make it easier for users.
But what if Sun ships Java SE 5.1 someday? if Harmony already has 5.1.2 which actually is Java SE 5.0 compatible, what should we do? It may be not likely of Java 5, but possible for Java 6, 7...

My point is: this is confusing, either we keep the Java SE spec version intact like 5.0_12, or we use totally different version number, like Geronimo, 1.0->J2EE 1.4. I cannot see why Harmony 5.1.2 is more clear than Harmony 5.0_12?

geir



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Paulex Yang
China Software Development Lab
IBM


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