RE: [mylar-dev] Stand alone bug tracking

[Jeff Pound <jpound@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 21:32 -0400, Mik Kersten wrote:
> 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.  
> 

This is an interesting idea. A quick look through the docs shows that
retroweaver supports most of the new 1.5 syntax, it does not however
support any of the new classes introduced in 1.5 other than
java.lang.Enum, java.lang.Iterable, and java.lang.StringBuilder. Does
Mylar make use of new java 1.5 classes as well as the other features?


Jeff



> >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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