Re: [cme-dev] plans for 3.1?

[Phil Quitslund <pq@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Harold,

It would be great to have CME running under 3.1 so I'm happy you're looking into 
it!  A few points inline:

> As regards Java5 awareness, there are, unfortunately, no plans by our group
> to address this. I do want to get the system working on code that doesn't
> leverage the Java 5 extensions but is compiled with the Java 5 compiler and
> run with its runtime. I'm not expecting problems there, and hope I am
> right.

I hope you're right about this last point but I admit I'm less optimistic.  As I 
understand it, the classfile format underwent some changes in 1.5 that I expect 
will break tools like JikesBT that are tooled around the old format.  That said, 
the problems may not be too hard to fix (especially not for the authors, some of 
whom are at hand?)

> It would be great if someone in the community wanted to pick up handling
> the Java 5 extensions!

I agree, and if I had more time I might be foolish enough to offer ;).  Anyway, 
for now Andrew is keeping me too busy (phew?).

Please keep me posted as you explore the move to 3.1 and especially if you have 
to shelve it for any amount of time.  I might be able to help you chase bugs...

Thanks!


-phil