On Thursday 28 October 2010 16:05:58 Matthew Toseland wrote: > On Thursday 28 October 2010 13:21:36 Matthew Toseland wrote: > > It would simplify the build process and enable us to use new language > > features if we moved to Java 1.6. The problem is: > > 1) Mac OS/X 10.4 only has Java 5. As I understand it you have to pay for > > upgrades, and they are disruptive, so most people don't? > > 2) It would slightly increase the difficulty of getting Freenet working on > > free JVMs. > > 3) Some users with older installs may still have Java 1.5. How many is > uncertain - on Windows they should have been told to upgrade by the > auto-updater, shouldn't they? Most linuxes have java 6 now but some might > still be using 5? > > > > Is it worth doing it anyway? How many people run OS/X 10.4 nowadays? >
I?ll answer from my point of view, and not trying to estimate freeneet users... No-one uses Java 1.5 anymore. On Windows, people gets update notifications all the time, Java has autoupdater and overall people who knows about something wants to use newest software, so they try not to block Java. On Mac OS X, 10.4 is just old, and active OSX users will upgrade they?ll computers to get new operating systems. On Linux... I suppose most of you are Linux users? Java 1.5 is just old and unnecessary. Nowadays most distros provide icedtea based java builds by default, as they are free as opposed to sun-jdk. -- Terveisin, Samu Voutilainen http://smar.fi
