Great Stefan,
Antoine On 1/26/12 12:19 PM, Stefan Bodewig wrote: > Hi all, > > Obviously I didn't manage to look through bugzilla last weekend, my > family had different plans (and I thank them). > > One thing I want to do is giving a recent OpenJDK8 snapshot a try so Ant > 1.8.3's javac would support building for 1.8/8 when that gets released. > Given our current release cycle Java8 may be there before we release the > predecessor of 1.8.3. > > Detecting Java8 may be tricky as we usually rely on new classes and I'm > not sure we can rely on class names for Java8 being carved into stone > already. > > I only see three bugzilla issues with target 1.8.3 that are not > resolved. > > 44786 needs to be verified. It may be OK to mark it fixed and let > people reopen it if the new attribute doesn't help. > 50788 opened by myself, so I should better deal with it. > 52076 just needs docs, code is there, I'll see to it. > > There are more bugs we could address but then again if anybody wants to > work on them nobody will stop us from doing more frequent releases. > > Currently I plan to assemble the release in about two weeks. Does that > sound reasonable? > > On 2012-01-23, Jesse Glick wrote: > >> On 01/20/2012 12:25 AM, Stefan Bodewig wrote: >>> I don't have Java 1.4 around anymore and wouldn't really know where >>> to obtain one. >> http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javasebusiness/downloads/java-archive-downloads-javase14-419411.html#j2sdk-1.4.2_19-oth-JPR > Yes, saw that, thank you. > >> A committer needs to be the one to do release builds I guess. > Yes, anything else would be too difficult (tagging, signing of artifacts > and all that). > >> (I hope this will be the last Ant release running on such an ancient VM...) > Just call for a vote to drop 1.4 support after the release. If it > passes soon enough we can even announce it will be the last release > supporting 1.4. > > Stefan > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
