On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Henri Yandell <flame...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think the argument is the other way. You should be explaining why > you wouldn't simply just move to Java 5.
+1 - Java 1.4 must die now. > +1 to JDK 1.5 minimum. +1 If we lift up to 1.5 as a minimum what about lifting to compress 2.0? Then we can speak about generics and enums too because we don't need to be so strict on BC :-) Cheers Christian > > Hen > > On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> no, this is not about generics or enums or ... >> >> This time it is methods added in the classlib, in particular >> java.util.zip.Inflater#getBytesRead and friends which return longs >> rather than ints that are returned by getTotalIn. >> >> Since ZIP entry size is an unsigned four byte int even without Zip64 >> support it simply doesn't fit into an int and some bugs cannot properly >> be fixed by using the Java4 method. (COMPRESS-129 is one). >> >> Things will become worse with Zip64 as we'd need unsigned longs but I'm >> willing to accept that as theoretical cases. >> >> The alternative would be to use some reflection magic inside the ZIP >> package (which I'm willing to do). >> >> Stefan >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > -- http://www.grobmeier.de --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
