>this is not a vote, more of a poll to see whether there'd be a chance >for consensus. > >Ant 1.7.1 dropped support for Java 1.2 somewhat officially, we voted >to drop support but never made that decision public. > >There has been some discussion about dropping support for Java 1.3 in >trunk. One of the aguments against it was that 1.4 doesn't offer >anything new and going from 1.3 to Java5 was too big a step. > >Given that nobody of us really works works with Java 1.3 anymore, >trunk doesn't get tested there at all. So even if 1.4 doesn't offer >much, officially dropping support for 1.3 would make us match the >supported environments to the tested environments more closely. > >So what do you think? Do we want to move to 1.4? Would you be more >comfortable with it after a Java 1.3 compatible Ant 1.7.2 with most >bug fixes from trunk applied?
According to http://java.sun.com/products/archive/eol.policy.html the end of lifetime is for Java 1.3 : March 2006 Java 1.4 : April 2008, but most extended EOL (EOSL) April 2018 Java 5 : June 2009, EOSL June 2019 Because 1.3 is (officially) dead and 1.3-compatibility errors are only found by accident, I am for dropping 1.3. Because we searched often enough which Java version we officialy have to support, we have to make these information public on a prominent position. Stefan already did that: http://ant.apache.org/faq.html#java-version I would be happy having Java5 for its Generics and Annotations. But staying on 1.4 would be ok, if we respect the eoSl of Java 1.4. >I am in the middle of fixing that, actually. It's >just that it's wrapped up with some new changes I have >pending. Because Matt is investigating in Java 1.3 compliance I prefer Ant 1.7.1 : Java 1.3 Ant next : Java 1.4 Ant 1.8 : Java 5 Jan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
