RE: [mylar-dev] Stand alone bug tracking

["Mik Kersten" <beatmik@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Jeff,

Yup, the standard Mylar build requires a 1.5 VM to run, and it's
disappointing that 1.5 is still not available on Fedora.  I agree that it
would be nice for all Eclipse plug-ins to run on supported Eclipse 3.1
platforms.  I looked into this a while ago and am hoping that we can use
Retroweaver to make the 1.5 bytecodes 1.4 compatible:
http://retroweaver.sourceforge.net/  

Let me know if you have time to give it a shot, the report is:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=104601

Cheers,

Mik


> -----Original Message-----
> From: mylar-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mylar-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx]
...
> I tried out Mylars bug tracking support. There is a lot of overlap with
> the eclipse-bugzilla plug-in and some complimentary features as well.
> >From a high level functionality viewpoint, there is plenty of room for
> collaboration. But this is now secondary to my main concern. The first
> thing I noticed about Mylar is that it depends on Java 1.5, this is a
> problem for both my interests (deploying with a non-proprietary java
> stack such as gcj), and from the general viewpoint of eclipse 3.1
> integration. Eclipse 3.1 requires java 1.4. There have been no official
> announcements that I know of, but the general consensus of some news
> group discussions was that eclipse would support compiling java 1.5, but
> the platform itself would retain java 1.4 compliance.
> 
> I'm not quite sure how to proceed from here. I would have no problem
> contributing to a java 1.5 spec when free java support for 1.5 is
> available (I guess it's not really unreasonable for a plug-in to require
> java 1.5 despite the platform staying at 1.4), however until then I
> can't really contribute my time as this project will not be deployable
> on fedora's free java stack. Sorry :(
> 
> 
> Jeff