Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact user-help@ant.apache.org; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list user@ant.apache.org Received: (qmail 86698 invoked from network); 14 Mar 2003 15:41:20 -0000 Received: from icarus.apache.org (208.185.179.13) by daedalus.apache.org with SMTP; 14 Mar 2003 15:41:20 -0000 Received: (qmail 16434 invoked from network); 14 Mar 2003 15:41:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mumasankar) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.apache.org with SMTP; 14 Mar 2003 15:41:20 -0000 Message-ID: <00cb01c2ea40$04d06d10$270610ac@manu.com> From: "Magesh Umasankar" To: "Ant Users List" References: <200303141505.37409.conor@cortexebusiness.com.au> Subject: Re: Dropping JDK 1.1 support Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 10:40:18 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 X-Spam-Rating: localhost.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N Where is the carrot from the user's perspective? ************************************************ * "Progress might have been all right once, * * but it has gone on too long." -- Ogden Nash * ************************************************ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Conor MacNeill" To: Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 11:05 PM Subject: Dropping JDK 1.1 support > We've started discussing on ant-dev at what point we could drop support for > JDK 1.1 in Ant. Steve has suggested that we should ask the user community for > opinions. I think that is a good idea so here goes. > > Currently the Ant core and many of the core tasks are required to compile > under JDK 1.1. Optional tasks are able to require more modern JDK versions. > We are thinking about moving the core up to requiring JDK 1.2. It has the > advantage of allowing us to use JDK 1.2 facilities without resorting to > reflection and artificial interfaces, etc.. > > The options would be > > 1. Mark the Ant 1.5.x releases as the last JDK 1.1 compatible release. IOW, > Ant 1.6 would require JDK 1.2 > > 2. Mark 1.6 as the last JDK 1.1 release. This would give more notice of the > change > > 3. Stick to JDK 1.1 support for now. > > Please feel free to express your views. > > Thanks > Conor > > -- > Conor MacNeill > Blog: http://codefeed.com/blog/ >