1.4 compliance

Vladimir Kirichenko wrote:
> scala.Console line 187 contains reference to PrintStream.printf that is
> not present in java 1.4 .
>
> Should I file the ticket?

Java 1.4 has reached End of Life and I believe it is no longer supported.

If only more mobiles ran 1.5

On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 10:40 +1100, Eric Willigers wrote:
> Vladimir Kirichenko wrote:
> > scala.Console line 187 contains reference to PrintStream.printf that is
> > not present in java 1.4 .
> >
> > Should I file the ticket?
>
> Java 1.4 has reached End of Life and I believe it is no longer supported.

This is not true. Only Scala 2.8.x will require Java 1.5. There's a
Scala 2.7.3 compiled for Java 1.4:

http://www.scala-lang.org/downloads/distrib/files/scala-2.7.3.final-jvm4...

The link is shown here:

http://www.scala-lang.org/downloads

Best,
Ismael

Ismael Juma wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 10:40 +1100, Eric Willigers wrote:
>> Vladimir Kirichenko wrote:
>>> scala.Console line 187 contains reference to PrintStream.printf that is
>>> not present in java 1.4 .
>>>
>>> Should I file the ticket?
>> Java 1.4 has reached End of Life and I believe it is no longer supported.
>
> This is not true.

It is true that Java 1.4 has reached end of its service life:

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html

Regards,
Blair

On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 20:08 -0800, Blair Zajac wrote:
> Ismael Juma wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 10:40 +1100, Eric Willigers wrote:
> >> Vladimir Kirichenko wrote:
> >>> scala.Console line 187 contains reference to PrintStream.printf that is
> >>> not present in java 1.4 .
> >>>
> >>> Should I file the ticket?
> >> Java 1.4 has reached End of Life and I believe it is no longer supported.
> >
> > This is not true.
>
> It is true that Java 1.4 has reached end of its service life:

You trimmed the rest of what I said, which is the actual relevant bit. I
was talking in the context of the Scala distribution since that is what
the original author was asking about. There was never a question about
filing a ticket in the Sun database.

In any case, scroll down to "Java SE for Business Release Families" in
the following link:

http://java.sun.com/products/archive/eol.policy.html

You can get support for Java 1.4 for a lot longer if you're willing to
pay. But as I said above, that is not really relevant to this
discussion. The point is that Scala 2.7.x is still meant to support Java
1.4.

Best,
Ismael