RE: [jdt-core-dev] JDT Core 3.5 plan

[Philippe P Mulet <philippe_mulet@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The Eclipse 3.x stream is about consolidation,
so changing such requirements in this stream is just asking for trouble
on the principle.
If we did change this, we could disrupt the entire stack on top of it (i.e.
needs to get general consensus from all dependents).

The 1.4.2 EOL is real though, but I
am not positive about other VM vendors having made such a decision (need
to check).
This being said, needless to say that
the JDT team would love to self-host using new language features...

In the Eclipse 4.0 stream (e4), the
decision was already made to be at 1.5 level (or maybe even higher). But
3.x has this compatibility mandate to honour.

"Walter Harley" <eclipse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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09/12/2008 08:12 AM

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Subject	RE: [jdt-core-dev] JDT Core 3.5 plan

Hi, Patrice.

I expect that no one is interested in a major rewrite unless there is a
significant advantage to be gained.  Although JRE 1.4 is end-of-life,
there are still plenty of people using it; and Eclipse will continue to
support compiling Java 1.4 code, so it will still be able to compile
itself.  

What is the nature of your interest in "migrating the code base to
Java
1.5 or 1.6", and what do you take that to mean?  E.g., are you
proposing
that existing code be rewritten to use generics, or Java 6 concurrency
classes, or ...?

I'm not disagreeing (indeed, the portions of the JDT that I work on are
already written in Java 1.5 and 1.6), just wondering if you can be more
detailed about what you think should be done and what the motivation
would be.

  -Walter Harley
   JDT APT lead



> -----Original Message-----
> From: jdt-core-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:jdt-core-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Patrice Chalin
> Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 10:38 AM
> To: Eclipse JDT Core developers list.
> 
> Do 3.5 plans include migrating the code base to Java 1.5 or 
> 1.6?  If not, any insights on when this will happen?

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