Werner Schuster (murphee) wrote:
Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:
Before we released 1.0, we discussed the possibility of making future
releases of JRuby based on Java 5 instead of Java 1.4.2. I think it's
time to raise that question again.
Just out of curiosity: wouldn't this move preclude JRuby running on
anything that's nowadays called J2ME? From what I know, MIDP doesn't
even have the "new" Collections API (the one introduced in the last
millennium), let alone anything resembling Java5.
Which is why, in order to run on ME right now, JRuby already requires
some substantial hackery, basically paring it down into a completely
different distribution. Adding enums and a few other niceities from Java
5 probably wouldn't make it much worse. But I've never done the chopping
myself, so others might have a different opinion.
- Charlie
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