On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Jonathan Purvis wrote:
Hi,
Everything about the Torque 4.0 plans sounds good to me, especially
getting rid of Village. However this one won't work:
- Use Java 5 style generics and enumerations. One can use compiler
settings to produce pre-1.5-executable class files.
The autoboxing in 1.5 of int to Integer uses Integer.valueOf(int),
which doesn't exist in 1.4. Also, javac won't let you:
$ javac -target 1.4 Generic.java
javac: target release 1.4 conflicts with default source release 1.5
$ javac -target 1.4 -source 1.5 Generic.java
javac: source release 1.5 requires target release 1.5
You are right, I was not aware of this. So what do we do ? I'd guess most
people will use java 1.5 by the time the new release is ready (I do not
think less than a year's development time is realistic), but I'm also sure
there are some users who cannot use Java 1.5.
Supporting 1.5 in the generator is the minimum option (we have that
already), but my original idea was to port the runtime and the other stuff
as well.
I'd guess if we do not do it in the step towards 4.0 we'll never make that
transition.
I'm undecided. Any opinions ?
Thomas
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