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

2007-07-26 Thread Charles Oliver Nutter
Wes Nakamura wrote: | Charles Oliver Nutter wrote: | > Before we released 1.0, we discussed the possibility of making future | > releases of JRuby based on Java 5 instead of Java 1.4.2. I think it's | > time to raise that question again. Just another quick note: although I wasn't able to get jru

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

2007-07-26 Thread Charles Oliver Nutter
Werner Schuster (murphee) wrote: Charles Oliver Nutter wrote: Before we released 1.0, we discussed the possibility of making future releases of JRuby based on Java 5 instead of Java 1.4.2. I think it's time to raise that question again. Just out of curiosity: wouldn't this move preclude JRuby r

[jruby-dev] [jira] Created: (JRUBY-1239) Monitor synchronize hangs

2007-07-26 Thread Doug Donohoe (JIRA)
Monitor synchronize hangs - Key: JRUBY-1239 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/JRUBY-1239 Project: JRuby Issue Type: Bug Components: Core Classes/Modules Affects Versions: JRuby 1.0.0 Environm

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

2007-07-26 Thread Bill Dortch
Hmm, I'd be a little careful with this, as it can obscure the source of failures when code elsewhere (naively?) assumes that its catch (Exception) clause will catch everything. (Ola, you may recall that I tracked down a byte-code generation bug in JavaProxyClassFactory that had remained unresolve

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

2007-07-26 Thread Wes Nakamura
| Charles Oliver Nutter wrote: | > Before we released 1.0, we discussed the possibility of making future | > releases of JRuby based on Java 5 instead of Java 1.4.2. I think it's | > time to raise that question again. Just another quick note: although I wasn't able to get jruby working exactly ri

Re: [jruby-dev] How to benchmark

2007-07-26 Thread Nick Sieger
On 7/26/07, Alan McKean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I would like to run benchmarks on the jar file that I have created from my changes for persistence/serialization and compare it with the original jar built from the trunk. Can someone give me a clue on what the standard procedure is? There ar

[jruby-dev] How to benchmark

2007-07-26 Thread Alan McKean
I would like to run benchmarks on the jar file that I have created from my changes for persistence/serialization and compare it with the original jar built from the trunk. Can someone give me a clue on what the standard procedure is? -

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

2007-07-26 Thread Nick Sieger
On 7/25/07, Nick Sieger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 7/24/07, Ola Bini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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

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

2007-07-26 Thread Werner Schuster (murphee)
Charles Oliver Nutter wrote: > Before we released 1.0, we discussed the possibility of making future > releases of JRuby based on Java 5 instead of Java 1.4.2. I think it's > time to raise that question again. Just out of curiosity: wouldn't this move preclude JRuby running on anything that's nowad

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

2007-07-26 Thread Bill Dortch
+1 Echoing Marcin's concerns, we should spell out in the JRuby Style Guideany restrictions or caveats for implementing 1.5 features in core code. But it would be great to be able to use features like annotations (goodbye module.defineX

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

2007-07-26 Thread Marcin Mielżyński
Charles Oliver Nutter wrote: Before we released 1.0, we discussed the possibility of making future releases of JRuby based on Java 5 instead of Java 1.4.2. I think it's time to raise that question again. We have a 1.0 release out now, which largely seems to be very solid and very well receive