Larry and Michael have suggested moving our development of OpenJUMP to one
of the newer JDK's. I had considered this a few weeks ago, and I had even
sent an e-mail to Vivid Solutions to confirm what version JDK they are
working with for JUMP development. They confirmed the use of JDK 1.4.2,
which is what OpenJUMP is also "officially" built on.
I have been building OpenJUMP on JDK 1.5 and 1.6 using Eclipse with no
problems. I have also been running that build of OPenJUMP on the 1.5
and 1.6JRE with no problems. I think Larry mentioned the same thing. I
think there
are a lot of advantages to keeping up with the advancements in the Java
langauge.
However, I do have at least 2 concerns about making this move:
[1] I don't want to break compatibility with JUMP. I think we should ask
Vivid Solutions about there plans in this regard. Perhaps they have a good
reason for waiting on the migration to a new JDK.
[2] I don't want to mess with our Linux users, althought there isn't likely
a lot of them. I'm a Linux user though. :] Now that Debian has worked out an
agreement with Sun and their are "official" Debian packages for the SUN JRE
and JDK I don't think this will be as much of a problem. The unstable
version of Debian now includes the 1.5.0 JDK. I'd like it if we didn't move
farther ahead with the JDK than the Debian packagers. But this probably
impacts me more than anyone else, so I could compromise...
I'd like to get some thoughts on this from Erwan, Ugo (if he is still
listening), and Stefan (if he can make time). It would also be interesting
to see what the Kosmo team thinks, if they read this post.
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