Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-jakarta-ant-dev-archive@apache.org Received: (qmail 63615 invoked from network); 22 Jul 2002 22:43:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nagoya.betaversion.org) (192.18.49.131) by daedalus.apache.org with SMTP; 22 Jul 2002 22:43:00 -0000 Received: (qmail 1670 invoked by uid 97); 22 Jul 2002 22:43:20 -0000 Delivered-To: qmlist-jakarta-archive-ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 1654 invoked by uid 97); 22 Jul 2002 22:43:19 -0000 Mailing-List: contact ant-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Help: List-Post: List-Id: "Ant Developers List" Reply-To: "Ant Developers List" Delivered-To: mailing list ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 1636 invoked by uid 98); 22 Jul 2002 22:43:19 -0000 X-Antivirus: nagoya (v4198 created Apr 24 2002) X-Authentication-Warning: costinm.sfo.covalent.net: costin owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 15:40:44 -0700 (PDT) From: costinm@covalent.net X-X-Sender: costin@costinm.sfo.covalent.net To: Ant Developers List Subject: Re: what I want to see in the next version of ant In-Reply-To: <20020722223544.55404.qmail@web13409.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Diane Holt wrote: > --- costinm@covalent.net wrote: > > Any change requires a majority of votes. If a majority of ant commiters > > believe that building on machines that have only JDK1.1 is not as > > important as using new features in jdk1.2 - than I see no reasons not > > to change it in 1.6. > > But there is a reason -- we agreed (at some point, many moons ago) that > anything called Ant1.x would be JDK1.1-compatible (BTW: I did mean that > the first time around, and shouldn't have written it JDK1.x), and once we > decided to break with that, we'd call it 2.0. And we can agree at any point that the circumstances changed and JDK1.1 is no longer a big enough issue. Most platforms have java2 ( either Sun or Kaffe/GCJ ), fewer people use 1.1 Every decision can be reconsidered if the circumstances change or if we figure that it is not longer the best choice. Top-level tasks were voted down few years ago, and now it seems we'll have a majority to change that old vote. Costin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: For additional commands, e-mail: