Re: [jruby-dev] Java version

2007-07-30 Thread Francis Cianfrocca
On 7/29/07, Ola Bini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > I wrote a blog post about it, and got quite many replies. Almost all of > them very positive about going to 5, but there were a few that > represents my gut feel about it. Take this for example, from Jesper: > I think for a lot of users

RE: [jruby-dev] Java version

2007-07-29 Thread Peter K Chan
_ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Durgin Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2007 5:40 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [jruby-dev] Java version On 7/29/07, Ola Bini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, So, once again, the question of which should be the min

Re: [jruby-dev] Java version

2007-07-29 Thread Alex Durgin
On 7/29/07, Ola Bini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > So, once again, the question of which should be the minimum Java version > to run JRuby. We are currently at 1.4.2, but the proposal is to move to > 5 for trunk and all major releases from now on. This does not concern > the 1.0.x-series.

Re: [jruby-dev] Java version

2007-07-29 Thread Werner Schuster (murphee)
Ola Bini wrote: > I'm feeling deeply torn, especially since I know many of the features > of Java 5 will make our lives easier. Can we go the middleground? > Development and building has to be done with Java 5 or later, meaning > that the source code can contain annotations, which we can use to do