Re: Switching to Java 1.5

2008-06-10 Thread Chris Bowditch
Max Berger wrote: Hi Max, Vincent, Am 09.06.2008 um 20:01 schrieb Vincent Hennebert: There’s a point that I’d like to further discuss: why wouldn’t we implement Retroweaver/Retrotranslator in the Trunk? If we go the cautious route, that is if we run the test suite on a 1.4 jvm after each i

Re: Switching to Java 1.5

2008-06-10 Thread Max Berger
Vincent, Am 09.06.2008 um 20:01 schrieb Vincent Hennebert: There’s a point that I’d like to further discuss: why wouldn’t we implement Retroweaver/Retrotranslator in the Trunk? If we go the cautious route, that is if we run the test suite on a 1.4 jvm after each introduction of a 1.5 feature

Re: Switching to Java 1.5

2008-06-09 Thread Jeremias Maerki
at all IMO... Or this would be a very short-lived branch > (no more than a few weeks), just the time to test > Retroweaver/translator. > > Thanks, > Vincent > > > Vincent Hennebert wrote: > > Hi Guys, > > > > I would like to raise this topic again: what

Re: Switching to Java 1.5

2008-06-09 Thread Vincent Hennebert
few weeks), just the time to test Retroweaver/translator. Thanks, Vincent Vincent Hennebert wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I would like to raise this topic again: what about switching to Java 1.5 > as a minimum requirement? > > The End of Life transition period for Java 1.4 will

Re: Switching to Java 1.5

2008-06-09 Thread Adrian Cumiskey
Guys, I would like to raise this topic again: what about switching to Java 1.5 as a minimum requirement? The End of Life transition period for Java 1.4 will end on the 30th of October 2008 [1]. The next version of FOP (after 0.95) will probably not have been released by this time, so we could

Re: Switching to Java 1.5

2008-06-07 Thread J.Pietschmann
Max Berger wrote: I have to disagreee. AAMOF, java 1.5 is ONLY supported on a select number of plattforms, mainly the ones Sun provides the JDK for (or is licensed). Well, gcj claims 1.5 compatibility and can be compiled on almost anything. My personal experience on a Debian AMD64 platform is t

Re: Switching to Java 1.5

2008-06-06 Thread Jess Holle
Peter B. West wrote: Jess Holle wrote: Java 5 runs on HPUX and AIX machines as well -- as well as on Solaris x86. When you've got Windows, Mac OS X, x86 Linux, Solaris, HPUX, and AIX covered, I'd say that's pretty good. The other platforms are, er, odd balls. The question is whether you ho

Re: Switching to Java 1.5

2008-06-06 Thread Peter B. West
Jess Holle wrote: Max Berger wrote: Jess Holle schrieb: As of October of this year anything prior to Java 5 will be officially unsupported by Sun except where you have a paid support contract with them (including that for Solaris). Add to that the fact that Java 1.4 is so limiting for so man

Re: Switching to Java 1.5

2008-06-06 Thread Jess Holle
Max Berger wrote: Jess Holle schrieb: As of October of this year anything prior to Java 5 will be officially unsupported by Sun except where you have a paid support contract with them (including that for Solaris). Add to that the fact that Java 1.4 is so limiting for so many things and Java

Re: Switching to Java 1.5

2008-06-06 Thread Andreas Delmelle
On Jun 5, 2008, at 19:26, Andreas Delmelle wrote: On Jun 5, 2008, at 17:46, Vincent Hennebert wrote: Hi Guys, I would like to raise this topic again: what about switching to Java 1.5 as a minimum requirement? No objection from me. +1 on moving forward with this in the trunk. Just to

Re: Switching to Java 1.5

2008-06-06 Thread Adrian Cumiskey
Just stumbled upon this... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_backporting_tools Retrotranslator looks to have a more fully implemented feature set. Maybe we should try both. Adrian. Max Berger wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Fop-devs, Jess Holle schrieb:

Re: Switching to Java 1.5

2008-06-06 Thread Max Berger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Fop-devs, Jess Holle schrieb: > As of October of this year anything prior to Java 5 will be officially > unsupported by Sun except where you have a paid support contract with > them (including that for Solaris). Add to that the fact that Java 1.

Re: Switching to Java 1.5

2008-06-05 Thread Adrian Cumiskey
s right. > -0.5 (no veto) to moving to Java 1.5 before Oct 2008. > +1 to making experiments with Retroweaver (but please not in Trunk). > > On 05.06.2008 17:46:07 Vincent Hennebert wrote: > > > Hi Guys, > > I would like to raise this topic again: what about switching to J

Re: Switching to Java 1.5

2008-06-05 Thread Jess Holle
+1 to moving to Java 1.5 when the time is right. -0.5 (no veto) to moving to Java 1.5 before Oct 2008. +1 to making experiments with Retroweaver (but please not in Trunk). On 05.06.2008 17:46:07 Vincent Hennebert wrote: Hi Guys, I would like to raise this topic again: what about switching t

Re: Switching to Java 1.5

2008-06-05 Thread The Web Maestro
008 17:46:07 Vincent Hennebert wrote: >> Hi Guys, >> >> I would like to raise this topic again: what about switching to Java 1.5 >> as a minimum requirement? >> >> The End of Life transition period for Java 1.4 will end on the 30th of >> October 2008 [1].

Re: Switching to Java 1.5

2008-06-05 Thread Chris Bowditch
Vincent Hennebert wrote: Hi Guys, I would like to raise this topic again: what about switching to Java 1.5 as a minimum requirement? Hi Vincent, I'm happy to allow the use of generics in trunk code if retroweaver is used to maintain Java 1.4 support. I don't think the time i

Re: Switching to Java 1.5

2008-06-05 Thread Jeremias Maerki
.5 (no veto) to moving to Java 1.5 before Oct 2008. +1 to making experiments with Retroweaver (but please not in Trunk). On 05.06.2008 17:46:07 Vincent Hennebert wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I would like to raise this topic again: what about switching to Java 1.5 > as a minimum requir

Re: Switching to Java 1.5

2008-06-05 Thread Max Berger
e past and it seemed to work well, but it would interesting to hear from anyone who has any hands on experience with using it. +1 from me. Adrian. Vincent Hennebert wrote: Hi Guys, I would like to raise this topic again: what about switching to Java 1.5 as a minimum requirement? The E

Re: Switching to Java 1.5

2008-06-05 Thread Andreas Delmelle
On Jun 5, 2008, at 17:46, Vincent Hennebert wrote: Hi Guys, I would like to raise this topic again: what about switching to Java 1.5 as a minimum requirement? No objection from me. +1 on moving forward with this in the trunk. Andreas

Re: Switching to Java 1.5

2008-06-05 Thread Adrian Cumiskey
t and it seemed to work well, but it would interesting to hear from anyone who has any hands on experience with using it. +1 from me. Adrian. Vincent Hennebert wrote: Hi Guys, I would like to raise this topic again: what about switching to Java 1.5 as a minimum requirement? The End of

Switching to Java 1.5

2008-06-05 Thread Vincent Hennebert
Hi Guys, I would like to raise this topic again: what about switching to Java 1.5 as a minimum requirement? The End of Life transition period for Java 1.4 will end on the 30th of October 2008 [1]. The next version of FOP (after 0.95) will probably not have been released by this time, so we could