Ant has historically catered to the "lowest common denominator." I agree that that level has progressed to at least Java 5, but all things considered I don't think we'd gain that much from a bump all the way up to 6.
Matt On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 8:31 AM, Jess Holle <je...@ptc.com> wrote: > At least. > > If there are any compelling API which weren't introduced until 1.6 (there > are in concurrency areas, but I'm not sure about anything Ant would use), > then I'd say require 1.6. > > 1.5 is actually quite ancient at this point. If you're not on at least 1.6, > then I have to assume you're fine using old versions of Ant too. > > On 7/29/2011 3:30 AM, Peter Reilly wrote: >> >> Personally I think that ant should move to java 1.5 for ant 1.9. >> >> Peter >> >> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 5:16 AM, Stefan Bodewig<bode...@apache.org> >> wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> ZIP64 is the nickname for the changes to the ZIP archive format that are >>> necessary to support files> 4GB (both individual entries and complete >>> archives) or archives with more than 64k entries. Ant's ZIP package >>> does not support this and neither does java.util.zip prior to Java7[1]. >>> >>> Over in Commons land I've started to implement ZIP64 support in Commons >>> Compress. Once the code is released the Compress Antlib will >>> transparently support ZIP64 without any changes required there. All >>> you'd need to do is upgrading Commons Compress. >>> >>> In order to implement it, Commons Compress must switch to Java5 as the >>> few parts of java.util.zip that are used in CC (Inflater/Deflater) have >>> an issuficient API for big entries (getTotalIn returns an int which is >>> too small, getBytesRead which returns a long has been added in Java5). >>> >>> Since Ant is stuck with Java 1.4 for now I do not plan to backport the >>> changes from Commons Compress over to Ant's ZIP package. The reflection >>> needed will be too much and I've started to embrace generics and other >>> Java5 features in the modified code base, so porting is just too >>> painful. >>> >>> Users that need ZIP64 can be pointed to the Compress Antlib IMHO. >>> >>> Stefan >>> >>> [1] Java7 claims to support it but from what I've seen the OpenJDK >>> implementation is likely wrong. I'll dig into OpenJDK's code at one >>> point in time and open a bug report if my suspicion remains true. >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org >>> >>> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org >> >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org
