On Wednesday 21 May 2008 06:42, Florent Daigni?re wrote: > * Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> [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. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20080521/2f92f8c7/attachment.pgp>
