Re: [Rails-devel] Java 1.5

[Brett L. <wak...@gm...>]

On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 23:24 +0200, Erik Vos wrote:
> In the meantime I have been exposed to Java 1.5, 
> and I am changing my mind about a switch to that version.
> 
> In particular generics and the for/in loop appeal to me,
> and autoboxing might also be handy now that I have to wrap
> many primitives into objects on behalf on undo/redo.
> 
> The many warnings generated on unsafe use of Collections
> will be an initial annoyance, but will at the same time
> point to the places where generics should be applied.
> 
> No urgency on this switch, though.
> 
> Erik Vos
> 



Yeah, there are certainly a few nice things about Java 1.5. 

Now that Sun has pushed up to 1.6 (aka Java 6), I think 1.5 is probably
well supported enough that I think we can increment our minimum
requirements up to 1.5.

At this point, I can't think of a reason not to do it.

 ---Brett.


A motion to adjourn is always in order.