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Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 18:43:45 +0000
From: Al Sutton <al.sutton@alsutton.com>
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Subject: Re: Drop J4 support, was: Re: release process
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Sun ended support for Java 1.4 at the end of last month[1], so it would 
seem reasonable to drop support for 2.1

Al.

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

Rainer Hermanns wrote:
> I'd vote with +1 for dropping j4-support in Struts 2.1.X
> but with -1 for Struts 2.0.X because of known users using
> previous 2.0.X backported releases and that are waiting for
> another stable GA release for their production systems.
>
> just my 0.02€,
> cheers,
> Rainer
>
>   
>> Yes, my thoughts were on that direction, drop out direct support and
>> document what needs to be done, for those that still need it.
>>
>> musachy
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 12:35 PM, Dave Newton <newton.dave@yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> --- On Sun, 11/16/08, Musachy Barroso wrote:
>>>       
>>>> I know someone already asked this but, shouldn't we drop
>>>> the jdk4 support already?
>>>>         
>>> +1, but I'll add a wiki page giving a brief overview of the retro
>>> process
>>> ("Run this batch file, loser!")
>>>
>>> Dave
>>>
>>>
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>>
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