[Biojava-l] JVM level for BioJava - should we migrate to 1.4 as our base JVM?

Schreiber, Mark mark.schreiber at agresearch.co.nz
Wed Mar 19 12:06:56 EST 2003


How about we roll out a biojava1.3pre2 which has a combined code base
and if it blows chunks we can migrate back again?

- Mark


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael L. Heuer [mailto:heuermh at acm.org] 
> Sent: Wednesday, 19 March 2003 9:58 a.m.
> To: Schreiber, Mark
> Cc: smh1008 at cus.cam.ac.uk; biojava-l at biojava.org; 
> biojava-dev at biojava.org
> Subject: RE: [Biojava-l] JVM level for BioJava - should we 
> migrate to 1.4 as our base JVM?
> 
> 
> 
> I think it's probably fine to move to one source tree, but 
> it's also harmless to leave it as is, as the build file 
> checks for 1.4.
> 
> So I guess, if you want to do it, I'd say go fer it.
> 
>    michael
> 
> 
> On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Schreiber, Mark wrote:
> 
> > Hi -
> >
> > I'd support a unification of the whole codebase to Java1.4.
> >
> > Does anyone on the security council want to veto that (oops 
> that may 
> > have been in bad taste).
> >
> > - Mark
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: David Huen [mailto:smh1008 at cus.cam.ac.uk]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, 19 March 2003 4:58 a.m.
> > > To: biojava-l at biojava.org; biojava-dev at biojava.org
> > > Subject: [Biojava-l] JVM level for BioJava - should we migrate to 
> > > 1.4 as our base JVM?
> > >
> > >
> > > It appears that all the platforms I am aware of (MS, 
> Linux, Irix, OS 
> > > X,
> > > Tru64) have now got 1.4 releases.
> > >
> > > Our existing codebase is split across Java-1.3 and 1.4 with some 
> > > features compiled only on 1.4.
> > >
> > > Would it be feasible to reunify our codebase? More 
> specifically, is 
> > > there any reason that we are aware of why we should NOT 
> put the 1.4
> > > as the base
> > > JVM for BioJava 1.3 and later?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > David Huen
> > >
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