Maybe it is just me, but I really don't like calling our users
"customers". It makes me cringe when I hear that.
I don't think this question is sufficent. We need to consider JDK and
JRE uses separately. Yes, most java 5 code should run on a java 6 JRE,
but you wouldn't use a java 6 JDK for java 5 dev - it is too much of a
risk when compiling against the class library. I've seen this issue
bite back too many times.
-nathan
Sent from my iPhone
On Apr 21, 2009, at 11:43 AM, Alexei Fedotov
<[email protected]> wrote:
Alexey, thanks for interesting polls. Well, I believe we should state
the question differently:
How many java programs which run with Java 1.5 cannot be run using
Java 1.6?
Or even better: does Harmony have customers (including internal
customers) which cannot easily switch to Java 6?
2009/4/21 Alexey Varlamov <[email protected]>:
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
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