Peter Reilly wrote:
I do not think we should do this.
As far as I know, there is no super compelling reason to make ant only
work on java 1.4 +,
I was curious as it is a lot easier to do relative URLs with the
java.net.URI class, which is java 1.4+ only
java5, on the other hand....
we switched to java5 @ Work, primarily because once you read all the
(wonderful) papers on the Java Memory Model, you can't trust the JVM's
memory accesses to volatile keyworded data in a multithreaded app.
It does offer lots of advantages
-new collections
-iterators
-ability to have subclasses return subtypes on overridden methods
-concurrency API
That's before you worry about annotations.
I think if we made a jump to java5 for Ant1.8 we'd upset all the java1.4
users out there (and there are still a lot -I can see that for
discussons on testng-users mailing list, people who annotations in
javadoc. However, I can also see that we'd want to move to java 5
eventually, and we need to move from java1.3 to 1.4 first. So having a
move from java1.3 for java 1.8 would seem a first a step.
--
Steve Loughran http://www.1060.org/blogxter/publish/5
Author: Ant in Action http://antbook.org/
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