On 2010-08-04, Hyrum K. Wright wrote: > Thanks, and sorry about the rather abrupt subject line (I forgot to > fill in the rest before sending the mail!)
No problem. > On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Stefan Bodewig <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 2010-08-04, Hyrum Wright wrote: >>> Also, I'm a bit curious why we still require a source version of Java >>> 1.4. >> Not sure, my guess is that we didn't have a compelling reason to use >> Java5 features so far. There is a JIRA issue open that want to see us >> move to Java5. > I'm interested mainly to clean up the various loop iterations. I > don't know how much the use of generics would benefit us. Agreed. There may be places where we could benefit from enums as well. But even then most changes would be cosmetic and so far nobody wanted to invest time into it. You're welcome 8-) Even though Ant still lives in Java 1.4 land, there wouldn't be any problem with an Antlib that required Java 5 - Maven 2.2 requires Java5 by now. I don't really think we are sticking with Java 1.4 for any real reason other than "nobody has started the migration". I'd be fine with Java5 - once the 0.7 version has been released, that is. Stefan
