20 апреля 2009 г. 15:47 пользователь Tim Ellison <[email protected]> написал: > Alexei Fedotov wrote: >> Under resource constraints we may even think of dropping Java 5 in favor of >> Java 6. This would save Java 6 supporters their merge efforts and nullify >> merge bugs. > > Maybe. I hadn't thought of going that far - at least, not without a > reasonable overlap period that allows people to migrate from 5.0 to 6.0 > stream. > > Given we don't make a big deal of publishing the 6.0 stream code today, > I think it would be unreasonable to abandon the 5.0 stream abruptly. We > may well get to that point over time.
In fact Java5 is still widely used (more than 1/3 of polled audience on average), so surely we should not abandon it now. [1] http://www.misterpoll.com/polls/347384/results [2] http://www.jroller.com/scolebourne/entry/devoxx_2008_whiteboard_votes [3] http://www.jivesoftware.com/jivespace/poll.jspa?poll=1021 -- Alexey
