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.
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