Le jeudi 28 octobre 2010 17:03:17, Samu Voutilainen a ?crit : > 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.
And might I add that it seems that Java 1.5 isn't supported anymore : http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index-jdk5- jsp-142662.html
