Alexey, thanks for interesting polls. Well, I believe we should state the question differently:
How many java programs which run with Java 1.5 cannot be run using Java 1.6? Or even better: does Harmony have customers (including internal customers) which cannot easily switch to Java 6? 2009/4/21 Alexey Varlamov <[email protected]>: > 20 апреля 2009 г. 15:47 пользователь Tim Ellison > <[email protected]> написал: >> Alexei Fedotov wrote: >>> Under resource constraints we may even think of dropping Java 5 in favor of >>> Java 6. This would save Java 6 supporters their merge efforts and nullify >>> merge bugs. >> >> Maybe. I hadn't thought of going that far - at least, not without a >> reasonable overlap period that allows people to migrate from 5.0 to 6.0 >> stream. >> >> Given we don't make a big deal of publishing the 6.0 stream code today, >> I think it would be unreasonable to abandon the 5.0 stream abruptly. We >> may well get to that point over time. > > In fact Java5 is still widely used (more than 1/3 of polled audience > on average), so surely we should not abandon it now. > > [1] http://www.misterpoll.com/polls/347384/results > [2] http://www.jroller.com/scolebourne/entry/devoxx_2008_whiteboard_votes > [3] http://www.jivesoftware.com/jivespace/poll.jspa?poll=1021 > > -- > Alexey > -- With best regards / с наилучшими пожеланиями, Alexei Fedotov / Алексей Федотов, http://www.telecom-express.ru/ http://people.apache.org/~aaf/ http://harmony.apache.org/ http://code.google.com/p/openmeetings/
