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

[mark.schreiber at novartis.com]

Does SPICE rely on biojava-live? If it only requires biojava1.4 then this 
wouldn't be an issue. However, if you are actively building SPICE with 
biojava-live (possibly not a good idea) we can keep it as 1.4 for a while.

- Mark






Andreas Prlic <ap3 at sanger.ac.uk>
10/06/2005 03:26 PM

 
        To:     Mark Schreiber/GP/Novartis at PH
        cc:     biojava-dev at biojava.org, biojava-l at biojava.org
        Subject:        Re: [Biojava-dev] Java 1.5 (final chance to object)


Hi!

I use biojava for the SPICE - protein sequence and structure browser.

http://www.efamily.org.uk/software/dasclients/spice/

This application is launched from within a browser using Java Web Start.
Since many people still are using java 1.4 on their machines I would not
want to force them to upgrade and hence I would prefer biojava to stay
with 1.4 still for a while.

Cheers,
Andreas



On 6 Oct 2005, at 06:47, 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
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>
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