On Wednesday 21 May 2008 12:56, Florent Daigni?re wrote: > * Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> [2008-05-21 11:46:57]: > > > On Wednesday 21 May 2008 06:42, Florent Daigni?re wrote: > > > * Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> [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.
Those are some impressive stats... I didn't hear incomplete, I heard unstable, though, but maybe it's not an issue... > > > 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). So far so good... -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20080522/6655e921/attachment.pgp>
