I am also, +1, with the caveat that, although it makes perfect sense to *use* the capabilities of 1.5, we need to be careful when we talk about "modernizing" the API. New API is fine, but it can't be done at the cost of the existing API, which we still have to support for the foreseeable future.
McQ.
<graycol.gif>John Arthorne---2010/11/08 17:31:11---+1 from me. Although there is no single killer reason for this, every year there are one or two smaller issues that crop up tha
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Re: [eclipse-pmc] Approval needed for moving org.eclipse.core.resources plug-in to Java 1.5 |
+1 from me. Although there is no single killer reason for this, every year there are one or two smaller issues that crop up that require us to roll our own implementation of something that would be available in Java 5 if we could use it. I think we're at the point where this accumulation of issues outweighs the risk that there may still exist someone wanting to use the resource model in more constrianted environments (and we're not aware of any such consumers still existing in 3.7 stream).
This is a request to approve moving core.resources to Java 1.5. The
benefits are:
- making use of i18n libraries that aren't available elsewhere (e.g., high
surrogate support) to fix bugs like
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=310623
- modernizing our API and using generics, varargs, enums, etc, where
appropriate
- moving to Java 5 data structures that we previous had to maintain copies
of: Queue, CopyOnWriteList, etc.
Corresponding bug:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=311012
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Szymon Brandys
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