On Fri, 14 Mar 2008, Philip A. Chapman wrote: > against 2.0. So far, I've fought off the urge to convert to 1.3 simply > because it doesn't make sense to rewrite for 1.3, then again for 1.4. > Also, these projects make *heavy* use of generics and it would be a > terrible pain to re-write them without. I'd rather go straight to the > generics version. Quit punishing us 2.0 early adopters already.
That's an important consideration, but another minority that should be considered are those that remain stuck with Java 1.4 for a while more. To strike a balance wihout having to apply fixes to several branches, it might be a good idea to fix the most pressing remaining 1.3 issues in 1.3.3 (and perhaps 1.3.4 if needed), and after that do the 1.4 == 1.3 + generics release and drop 1.3 (and Java 1.4) support as voted. Best wishes, Timo -- Timo Rantalaiho Reaktor Innovations Oy <URL: http://www.ri.fi/ >
