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
