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On Jan 17, 2008 9:52 AM, Peter Reilly <peter.kitt.reilly@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 17, 2008 9:37 AM, Steve Loughran <stevel@apache.org> wrote:
> > Peter Reilly wrote:
> > > On Jan 17, 2008 12:37 AM, James Abley <james.abley@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > >> What is the base target version for ant development these days? Java 5?
> > >>
> > > It is java5, however, the ant jars need to be able to work gracefully in
> > > a java1.3 and java1.4 env (i.e. support what can be supported).
> > >> James
> >
> >
> > and Java 1,3-compatible language features...it has to compile on older
> > versions. What we can do is have a directory of java6+ code that isnt
> > built on Java <6.
>
> I do not think that the ability to compile ant on < java5 is necessary.
>
The reaon I think this is that the resultant output will not be a
complete ant product.
Peter

> Peter
> >
> >
> > --
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> > Steve Loughran                  http://www.1060.org/blogxter/publish/5
> > Author: Ant in Action           http://antbook.org/
> >
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