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> So who wants to run a 1.4 JDK? And what, exactly, prevents anything |
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> from being compiled under 1.5? The only thing I can think of is the |
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> user of the newly reserved word 'enum'. Big deal. How long has 1.5 |
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> been around now? |
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Have you actually tried using a 1.5 JDK to emerge your system? I'm |
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guessing not, because xerces, xalan, and dom4j won't compile with 1.5, |
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and they are pretty critical XML libraries that lots of things use. |
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Actually, there are a number of incompatibilities: |
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http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/compatibility.html#incompatibilities |
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> My perception is that there is only an ideological impediment to going |
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> with 1.5. That is that it will be a long time before the |
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> Stallman-approved JVMs support 1.5. So, the Java herd on Gentoo Stalls |
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> the adoption of 1.5, just to "prove" that 1) you don't need it, and 2) |
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> it's a very bad thing. Or at least it will be until the "free as in |
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> slaves to ideology" crowd get their act together. Thanks for nothing. |
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Somehow, I must have missed the conspiracy memo.... Seriously though, |
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where the heck did this come from? |
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I think you're seriously overestimating the manpower working on Java |
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support for Gentoo. There are now 10 developers (I'm a recent addition), |
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with 3 currently on leave. Of those 7, most of them have some sort of |
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life outside of Gentoo. With some 300+ packages to maintain with some |
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200 outstanding bugs, there isn't a lot of time/effort remaining for new |
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and exciting stuff. |
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Plus, it's not like there hasn't been work towards 1.5 support. See the |
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1.5 metabug: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65937 |
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Additionally, Thomas (axxo) has been working on an overlay for the past |
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six months or so to support 1.5, as was previously announced |
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(http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.java/605). He must not have |
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gotten the memo either. |
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So how can one help with supporting 1.5? Testing and provididing |
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feedback on axxo-overlay would be the most useful. There are some |
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details on http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/java/ but I hope to add more |
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details sometime this evening. |
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Regards, |
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Josh |
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