On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 02:14:39PM +0100, Chris Bowditch wrote: > Jeremias Maerki wrote: > >There we go again. ;-) I can understand the wishes and cravings of the > >developers (feeling them myself), but as I've said before: such a > >decision should be made with the user community in the back, i.e. there > >should be another user survey to gather current data. Just because Sun > >EOLs a Java version doesn't mean that everyone can suddenly just do the > >switch. So why don't those who want this change so badly do that little > >survey so we have the data on an informed decision? > > Hi All, > > I'm not so against this idea 1 year further on but I still have > concerns that we would force x% of users to stay on 0.95 if we do > this. I agree with Jeremias' proposal to run a survey on fop-users > for a couple of weeks to get some hard facts to help make an > informed decision. > > Also, I think it is something that could wait until after the long > promised 1.0 release. With the changing IPD feature being one of the > last major features of 0.20.x missing from 0.9x that is now > available we should consider doing the v1.0 release and then if the > survey shows the number of 1.4 and earlier users to be very low then > we should do the switch.
I agree that we should proceed with a 1.0 release. I can also agree with releasing it compliant with Java 1.4. I note, however, that the methods I removed were several methods in class Character which are very useful in character handling, such as the method Character.toChars(int), which is the main method to convert an integer to an array of chars. That means that for Unicode values above 0xFFFF there is no good method to turn the value into a char[] or String. Also Characters.toLowerCase, toUpperCase, toTitleCase, getType, $UnicodeBlock. For a text handling application in 2009 that is a bit painful. Simon -- Simon Pepping home page: http://www.leverkruid.eu
