On 7/26/07, Charles Oliver Nutter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It's hard for me to feel those concerns when there's multiple free Java > 5 implementations for Linux (the typical place people are running GCJ), > Sun's Java 6 version is available under very flexible distribution > licenses, and there's practically nothing but politics keeping people > from using Sun's Java 5 anyway. And like I mentioned before, JRuby 1.0 > would still support Java 1.4; but allowing the pace of other OSS Java > projects (projects we don't test against or run ourselves) to hinder our > development process or make *my* job harder doesn't seem very true to > the bazaar. If there are people out there really concerned about running > on Java 1.4 on GCJ or another Java 1.4 implementation, I'm all for them > stepping up and offering to maintain a compatible version of JRuby. But > everyone I know that contributes to the project is using Java 5 or > higher, and contribution is what earns you a vote.
It's funny, suddenly I take a look around and it seems like the same conversation is happening all over the place. Lucene [1] and CXF/XFire [2] are two examples I came across today. [2] is worth reading to remind yourself that retroweaver/retrotranslator are not perfect, and it will be possible for code to drift away from weave-ability. [1]: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/lucene/java-dev/51605 http://www.nabble.com/The-JDK-1.5-Can-o'-Worms-t4138703.html [2]: http://www.nabble.com/RE%3A-Java-1.4-p11653138.html /Nick
