Aha, I see, Alex. Sorry for not including you into the headline. I would practice my patience when reading the code :)
Thanks, Aleksey. On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 5:38 PM, Alex Blewitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 >
