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Common and 1.5

June 23rd, 2006 by Hen

Stephen Colebourne blogs about Commons Collections and JDK 5.0 Generics - should Collections have a new release which embraces generics.

One of the replies is that all Commons components should move to Java 5 - to which I give a very strong +1. If people need releases and branches for old versions to be maintained, then it’s pretty easy to make bugfix releases off of a branch, but we need to keep things interesting to maintain community involvement. Maintaining Java 1.2 code is quite irritating.

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One Response to “Common and 1.5”

  1. Jesse Kuhnert Says:
    June 23rd, 2006 at 4:52 pm

    Yes definitely. 1.5 has been out for waay too long to let <= 1.4 dictate future design considerations. The people that complain the most about wanting 1.4 support are usually very loud but in the minority..(imho)