* Matthew Toseland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-05-21 11:46:57]: > On Wednesday 21 May 2008 06:42, Florent Daignière wrote: > > * Matthew Toseland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-05-17 21:58:02]: > > > > > GCC 4.3 shipped in March, including the new ECJ frontend. It has full > support > > > for all the new 1.5 language features. IMHO this means that there is no > > > longer any reason to stick to java 1.4. > > > > > > Comments? > > > > Last time I was the one who strongly objected (that was in November)... > > but since then things have changed: > > > > > http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2008-February/001172.html > > > > As no one has objected this time let's do it... > > There have been objections on the grounds that classpath for 1.5 isn't > stable.
http://builder.classpath.org/japi/jdk15-classpath.html As far as I can see we don't use the problematic bits (swing, java.security, java.crypto, javax.management, ...) of the API. > Is IcedTea (or OpenJDK 1.6) sufficiently stable? > It's shipped with fedora and ubuntu now (arguably that's not a valid point considering that ubuntu is bundling alpha versions of FF).
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