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Re: OpenJDK strategy


On Oct 27, 2007, at 23:28 , Calum Shaw-Mackay wrote:

All-

At the risk of sounding too much like Devil's Advocate here, I think that you have to step back a little before breathing fire over the missing Java 6. 

One of the core tenets of Leopard was to deliver 64-bit Java in order to maintain the capability of Java as a platform in sync with the rest of Leopard (see -d32 and -d64 command options under leopard). My immediate thoughts are that that transition alone would be better undertaken using a Java version that is well known, and relatively stable under Tiger, as a starting point than to add any additional risk by adding Java 6 into the mix, particularly when there have been recorded issues with the Java 6 Preview 1 and updating prebindings causing problems with Rosetta applications.

For me, I'm willing to wait a couple of weeks even a month or so to get Java 6 even if it's Dev Preview 2, rather than have a really buggy Java 6 where they've taken two things (64-bit and Java 6) on at once.

One could argue that this sort of things are mostly a matter of human resources (I presume Java 6 could sit in parallel with Java 5 as much as Java 1.4 does with 5) and, given Apple high profits - that were made also with money spent by developers on Apple gear -, adding some resources should not be a problem. But above all technical questions, there's still the point that an official statement "Apple still supports Java and we will release Java 6 as soon as possible" costs zero dollars, right?


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