Stefan Bodewig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 10/15/2008 12:31:21 AM: > [snip] > > 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?
I think moving to 1.4 is fine; I'm actually kind of surprised that we've even go that low. Do we have a sense that people are still out there in the wild using JDK 1.4? I'd be fine with JDK 5
