RE: [mylar-dev] Stand alone bug tracking

["Mik Kersten" <beatmik@xxxxxxx>]

Sorry if I wasn't clear about this.  The idea proposed here is to use
Retroweaver (http://retroweaver.sourceforge.net) to post-process our JDK 1.5
bytecodes to be 1.4 compatible.  If it works as advertised Mylar should run
on any 1.4 VM, and not require a 1.5 VM to be installed.  

>From a technical point of view making 1.5 sources run on a 1.5 VM is not a
fundamentally difficult problem, just that apparently Sun has had no
incentive to do it.  So it's great to see projects like backport175 and
Retroweaver address this issue.

Mik

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mylar-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mylar-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Ed Burnette
> Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 9:20 PM
> To: Mylar developer discussions
> Subject: RE: [mylar-dev] Stand alone bug tracking
> 
> >From a user point of view, I could use it because I'm an early adopter
> and am running 1.6. But 99% of my colleagues are using the minimum JVM
> that is required by our product, which is 1.4.1 (to be upgraded to 1.4.2
> within the next year). I know it's possible to have multiple JVM's
> installed on one machine and use a newer one for Eclipse but for various
> reasons (like, the last one you install is the default one in the Windows
> registry) they're not going to go for that.
> 
> And since my users are running 1.4.x I can't even use a 1.5 JRE in my
> build path because it's too easy to accidentally put in a 1.5 dependency
> that way.
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