On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 8:40 AM, Stefan Bodewig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 14 Oct 2008, Jan Materne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I found the vote that we dropped Java 1.2 >> http://marc.info/?l=ant-dev&m=117794737813795&w=2 > > Great, thanks. > > >> Should we post these info in a more prominent place instead of a >> mailinglist-search? > > absolutely, and we probably should have listed it as a breaking change > in Ant 1.7.1
The issue was that ant 1.7.0 could not be used with jdk1.2. This was found after the release of 1.7.0, and was due to the fact that the java5 javac compiler is unable to generate correct bytecode for 1.2. - so the breaking change is in Ant 1.7.0. Peter > >> Like FAQ? > > Will do, alongside a comment that we don't really test old Java > releases and only ensure that Ant compiles there. > > I'll also start a different thread for the Java version required by > trunk. Do you want to fix the JDK 1.3 issues in trunk (I don't have a > 1.3 JDK around anymore and am too lazy to install one right now) or > should we wait for the thread's outcome? > > Stefan > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
