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On Wed, 6 Jan 2010, Mark Taylor wrote: > Peter, > > Brad's enquiry pricked my conscience 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? I'd still like to see us relax the 1.4 requirement, that is getting very out-of-date now, but as you say that's not likely to effect me much at the moment. Cheers, Peter.