On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Aleksey Shipilev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Sian, Andrew! > > Can we port pack200 to Java 1.5? Is there any rationale to stay with Java 1.4? > It would improve the code readability a lot: explicit iterators would > go away, some classes can be generalized, etc.
The reason for keeping the majority of the implementation at Java 1.4 levels is so that they could be used with 1.4 systems that don't have pack200 installed. For example, Eclipse has considered using it to support downloads of pack200 if running on a VM where neither the pack classes nor the unpack executable are available. Alex
