[macker-user] Re: Is Macker still maintained ? Is there JDK1.5 support?

[M C <mor...@ya...>]

> Macker is still used. It doesn't get many updates,
> mostly because it  
> is simple and doesn't receive many bug reports or
> enhancement  
> requests.  But yes, people are using it.
> 
> I am currently starting work on the next release of
> Macker.  It will  
> run under JDK 1.5 only (though it will still check
> classes compiled  
> for previous JDKs), and will include more
> sophistaced rule expressions.
> 
> The current release of Macker will likely work with
> 1.5 classes,  
> because the 1.5 changes are mostly in the form of
> extra class file  
> tags, which Macker will just ignore ... though I
> haven't tried it  
> myself.  Perhaps I should!
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Paul

Great news. I will try out Macker once the 1.5 version
is out! IMO, with the code being as complete and
errorfree as you report, you may want to give it a
"1.0" version istead of only "0.4" which sends a
different message. 

BTW: Eclipse 3.1 now also have some features for
specifying access rules. However they appear to be
more limited that Macker and I do not think they are
suppored from ANT scripts.

Cheers,
Morten Christensen