Re: Java 4 or 5?

I did commit a fix for the tow classes that were using J5 features.
And all plugin now have an EE defined as 1.4
Please make all sure when you code that you have a 1.4 JDK installed and
that you have a Java Execution Environment preference maping that JDK to
1.4.


-- 
Cheers
Philippe




> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On 
> Behalf Of Philippe Ombredanne
> Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2007 9:29 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Phpeclipse-devel] Java 4 or 5?
> 
> 
> > Based on the assumption that the code is forwards compatible, my 
> > recommendation is to stick with 1.4 until there is a 
> > compelling reason 
> > to change. Thoughts?
> Yes, the code is forward compatible.
> I would be in favor of switching the few classes that require 
> Java5 back
> to Java 1.4.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Cheers
> Philippe
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected] 
> > [mailto:[email protected]] On 
> > Behalf Of James Neethling
> > Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2007 6:10 AM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: [Phpeclipse-devel] Java 4 or 5?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > I was checking some missing execution environment 
> directives in the
> > > manifest and did set them to 1.4
> > > I found out that we have committed some code that depends 
> on Java5.
> > > Solution 1:
> > > we set a minimal EE of Java5 for those plugins, and we 
> > build PHPEclipse
> > > on Java5
> > > This si not Linux distro friendly.
> > >
> > > Solution 2: 
> > > We revert back to 1.4 everywhere, and set the EE to 1.4.
> > > The affected plugins are :
> > > net.sourceforge.phpeclipse.debug.core
> > > net.sourceforge.phpeclipse.webbrowser
> > > That is not much.
> > >
> > > What do you tink?
> > >   
> > There are few things more frustrating to a new user than to have to 
> > start messing with java versions. I agree that most distros 
> > ship with at 
> > least Java 5, but many linux users may be on older versions 
> > of their distro.
> > 
> > What about Windows/ Mac users? Windows should be easy enough, 
> > installing 
> > later java versions is usually quite simple. I'm not sure about the 
> > MacOs versions.
> > 
> > Based on the assumption that the code is forwards compatible, my 
> > recommendation is to stick with 1.4 until there is a 
> > compelling reason 
> > to change. Thoughts?
> > 
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