On 2010/10/29 (Oct), at 7:50 AM, Ximin Luo wrote:
On 28/10/10 19:20, Robert Hailey wrote:
I would agree if this issue was "holding freenet back", but I don't
get
that impression at all.
but what would qualify as "holding freenet back", for you?
If (for example) it becomes "annoying" to our full-time developer, it
is holding freenet back.
(1) There are still many capable PPC Apple machines being used.
how many people use such machines exclusively?
I have no idea. My primary workstation is such a machine, but I have
an intel at home. I don't understand the importance of exclusive
usage. I would presume the overall "market share" percent would
parallel the freenet-market percent.
Unless techy guys are more likely to have specialized machines, I may
be a statistical outlier.
(2) Foreseeable interests exists that would be easier with java-5
(like
embedded-freenet).
by the time we get a good effort going in this area, java 6 will
probably be ok
for such use-cases...
Maybe. Speculative.
(3) There is no stated immediate benefit.
...so nothing in my previous email counts? why not?
Say: "I wish we would move to java-6 so that ______" <--- fill in the
blank.
I've already given you one: "toad will be a happier person"
:)
--
Robert Hailey
(4) It would require a lot more effort on my part to keep up with a
java-5-compatible freenet fork.
this will be a worst-case scenario. i can imagine that lots more
people (than
just freenet users) want java 6 on mac, which means sooner rather
than later,
it will happen.
X
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