On Wednesday 21 May 2008 06:42, Florent Daignière wrote:
> * Matthew Toseland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-05-17 21:58:02]:
> 
> > GCC 4.3 shipped in March, including the new ECJ frontend. It has full 
support 
> > for all the new 1.5 language features. IMHO this means that there is no 
> > longer any reason to stick to java 1.4.
> > 
> > Comments?
> 
> Last time I was the one who strongly objected (that was in November)...
> but since then things have changed:
> 
> 
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2008-February/001172.html
> 
> As no one has objected this time let's do it... 

There have been objections on the grounds that classpath for 1.5 isn't stable. 
Is IcedTea (or OpenJDK 1.6) sufficiently stable?

> We will make the switch gradually: 
> 
> phase 1: (today)
>       - update the website 
>       - update the installer to require a 1.5 compliant jvm
> 
> phase 2: (before next stable)
>       - Create a user-alert asking the user to update, bare next
>         stable from auto-updating to what will be stable+1 if the jvm
>         is not 1.5 compliant
> 
> phase 3: (when next stable is out)
>       - I'll update emu's build scripts to use a 1.5 jvm
>       - We can start to introduce 1.5 code
> 
Seems reasonable if we're sure it's safe to do the change now.

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