As a general comment, its time to go to higher JDKs where it makes sense -- or atleast where there is developer interest in doing so (such as the post below :-). I have a JDK 1.6 branch for Commons SCXML, which I hope to release in a few months.
-Rahul On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Luc Maisonobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mauro Talevi recently proposed a new package for general linear regression > (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MATH-203). This patch needs Java 5, > mainly for annotations. > > Mauro suggested to take the opportunity of the next [math] major version to > switch to Java 5. A major version seems appropriate for such a change, but > do we want to do it now ? > > My personal opinion is that sticking to Java 1.3 is really obsolete and > difficult. When I upgraded my Linux box recently, I had to search old > backups to reinstall a JDK manually. Dropping this could simplify some codes > (exceptions for example) and fix some errors (there is a known issue with > unit tests since Java 1.3 does not compute trigonometric functions as it > should). > > If we decide to change minimal Java version, I would choose to target 1.5. > It is widely adopted and deployed now and has many features which would be > useful for a mathematical library: > - new Math functions (log10, cbrt, ulp, signum, cosh, sinh, tanh, hypot, > expm1, log1p) > - autoboxing > - MathContext, RoundingMode > In addition, there are the many features that are interesting for any type > of Java development (enums, generics, annotations). > > Java 6 brings even more Math functions (copysign, getExponent, nextAfter, > nextUp, scalb), some of which we needed to add ourselves in MathUtils. > However, I'm not sure it is as widely deployed than Java5. > > Perhaps Java 7 would bring even more functions (asinh, acosh and atanh are > still missing ...) > > What do you think ? > > Luc > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
