[Biojava-dev] Re: [Biojava-l] Java 1.5 (final chance to object)

[Marcus Breese]

You may want to think a bit more about converting completely over to 1.5...
There are still a number of platforms that don't have a compatible 1.5 JDK.
Mac OS X still comes with 1.42 standard (1.5 is available, but not
standard). Also, the last time I checked there wasn't an IBM PPC 1.5 JVM,
which means that a number of HPC platforms / clusters will not be supported.

My view on it is that 1.5 is good for apps, but still too new for a critical
library.


On 10/6/05, mark.schreiber at novartis.com <mark.schreiber at novartis.com> wrote:
>
> Hello -
>
> No one seemed to object to the idea of officially adopting java 1.5 for
> the biojava-live branch.
>
> This would mean ...
>
> biojava-live would require java1.5
> generics, unboxing and other language features added in 1.5 will start to
> creep into the codebase.
> all 'official' and 'preview' releases after biojava1.4 will require JDK1.5
> (Java 5).
>
> If you plan to use new versions of biojava on a machine for which there is
> or will be no JDK1.5 then you should protest now!
>
> - Mark
>
> Mark Schreiber
> Principal Scientist (Bioinformatics)
>
> Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases (NITD)
> 10 Biopolis Road
> #05-01 Chromos
> Singapore 138670
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>
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