Peter,
Brad's enquiry pricked my concsience about this mail still lurking
in my inbox:
On Tue, 2 Jun 2009, Peter W. Draper wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Jun 2009, Mark Taylor wrote:
>
> > > Mark, is it finally time to let go of 1.4 as the feature target?
> >
> > That sounds to me like a separate question. I agree that 1.4 is
> > getting quite old; maybe we could if you have a reason for wanting to.
>
> The main, somewhat tangential, reason is that 1.4 has reached it's EOSL
> (end of service life), so there will be no further updates. Not
> necessarily a problem for development, but end users should not be
> encouraged to use that product and will find it increasingly difficult to
> obtain (go looking for a download on java.sun.com).
>
> Given that position it would seem odd to not allow for 1.5 features in the
> code base, generics being the most obviously useful. From a more selfish
> perspective I'm also aware that Java has moved on so our skills aren't as
> fresh as they might be.
Would you still like to see this change from a personal point of view,
or are you now sufficiently uninvolved with starjava stuff that it
doesn't really affect you?
Mark
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