On 2010/10/28 (Oct), at 10:03 AM, Samu Voutilainen wrote:
On Thursday 28 October 2010 16:05:58 Matthew Toseland wrote:
On Thursday 28 October 2010 13:21:36 Matthew Toseland wrote:
It would simplify the build process and enable us to use new
language features if we moved to Java 1.6. The problem is:
1) Mac OS/X 10.4 only has Java 5. As I understand it you have to
pay for upgrades, and they are disruptive, so most people don't?
2) It would slightly increase the difficulty of getting Freenet
working on free JVMs.
3) Some users with older installs may still have Java 1.5. How many
is uncertain - on Windows they should have been told to upgrade by
the auto-updater, shouldn't they? Most linuxes have java 6 now but
some might still be using 5?
Is it worth doing it anyway? How many people run OS/X 10.4 nowadays?
I’ll answer from my point of view, and not trying to estimate
freeneet users...
No-one uses Java 1.5 anymore.
I suppose I can call myself "no-one" now...
I use java-5, I use freenet, and I could foresee it disturbing my
ability to contribute code. What benefit does compiling against java-6
have anyway?
On Mac OS X, 10.4 is just old, and active OSX users will upgrade
they’ll computers to get new operating systems.
At the least OS X 10.5 has java-5 as the default vm, so it might cause
a disruption to anyone on a PPC who is "stuck" at 10.5
--
Robert Hailey
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