[Biojava-l] moving to java 1.5

[Dr. Christoph Gille]

Hi everyone,

I followed the discussion on java 1.5.
Is 1.5 installable on all MacOSX systems?
There might be a problem with early OSX systems but I do not have a Mac to
check it.
It would be bad to break platform independence by moving to 1.5.


By googling I found retroweaver,
a converter of 1.5 to 1.4 which might be the solution to all problems.

One can compile to 1.5 bytecode and after compilation one can convert the
1.5 bytecode to 1.4 bytecode.

I have checked some of the included examples and it works indeed.

Does anyone has experiences with converting larger projects ?
Why not give it a try for BioJava


ciao

Christoph