[jruby-dev] Flow control should use Error-based exceptions

2007-07-24 Thread Ola Bini
Just noticed a thing, thanks to John Lam. Our JumpExceptions derive from RuntimeException. That means that code that will catch(Exception) will stop flow control, if it happens at the wrong place. To get around this, I believe we should consider going to have JumpExceptions based on java.lang.E

Re: [jruby-dev] Moving to Java 5?

2007-07-24 Thread gm-mrktc
Thomas E Enebo wrote: > > Could people who respond say what they are using in production and > when they moved from Java 1.4 if using something newer ? > We have built our app on 1.5 and all of our customers are running 1.5 if not 1.6. +1 to moving up, and keep up the good work. -- View th

Re: [jruby-dev] Moving to Java 5?

2007-07-24 Thread Raphaël Valyi
Again, why not use Retroweaver (http://retroweaver.sourceforge.net/) to backport a 1.4.2 compliant JRuby as well while coding in Java 1.5? Still, I can't tell how well retroweaver works, I never used it. BTW I'm also in favor of java 1.5. in the company I'm working I see more and more java CMS th

Re: [jruby-dev] Moving to Java 5?

2007-07-24 Thread René Jansen
If I may add my 2 cents, us enterprise types sometimes also like the flexibility that choice offers: sometimes only one requirement of an important tool is enough to upgrade a whole set of boxes. And believe it or not, lack of 1.5 support by another JVM language we used in a project (NetRex

Re: [jruby-dev] [jira] Created: (JRUBY-1235) DRb hangs when transferring Ruby objects created in Java

2007-07-24 Thread Alan McKean
Unless the fix for serialization that I sent as a diff get rolled in, serializing any Ruby object will attempt to serialize the entire runtime, including things that can't be serialized. Like threads, dynamic methods, etc. On Jul 24, 2007, at 12:20 PM, Kyle Maxwell (JIRA) wrote: DRb hangs

Re: [jruby-dev] Moving to Java 5?

2007-07-24 Thread Charles Oliver Nutter
Ola Bini wrote: I am against such a move. I would love to have some of the features in Java 5, but the fact of it is that most "enterprises" are still on 1.4. I believe JRuby is very important especially in the areas where conservative values reign, and moving to Java 5 will totally destroy th

[jruby-dev] [jira] Created: (JRUBY-1235) DRb hangs when transferring Ruby objects created in Java

2007-07-24 Thread Kyle Maxwell (JIRA)
DRb hangs when transferring Ruby objects created in Java Key: JRUBY-1235 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/JRUBY-1235 Project: JRuby Issue Type: Bug Components: Core Class

Re: [jruby-dev] Moving to Java 5?

2007-07-24 Thread Ola Bini
I am against such a move. I would love to have some of the features in Java 5, but the fact of it is that most "enterprises" are still on 1.4. I believe JRuby is very important especially in the areas where conservative values reign, and moving to Java 5 will totally destroy that advantage.

[jruby-dev] [jira] Created: (JRUBY-1234) I want you to rename gem to jgem.

2007-07-24 Thread ksaito (JIRA)
I want you to rename gem to jgem. -- Key: JRUBY-1234 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/JRUBY-1234 Project: JRuby Issue Type: Wish Affects Versions: JRuby 1.0.0 Reporter: ksaito

Re: [jruby-dev] Moving to Java 5?

2007-07-24 Thread David Pollak
For what it's worth, there's been a similar discussion about Scala and Java 5 over on the Scala mailing list. The key reason for keeping Scala @ 1.4 is that there is no Open version of Java 5+ Yes, Sun has open sourced 95% of the JDK, but the other 5% bars folks from actually releasing an

Re: [jruby-dev] Moving to Java 5?

2007-07-24 Thread dreamhead
+1 2007/7/24, Charles Oliver Nutter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: - Annotations for specifying method bindings. This could largely eliminate the need for manual method-binding code, as well as allow us to split method implementations by arity and even argument type I really like this idea. As we know,