As suggested in 1.8.3 thread, I propose we drop JDK 1.4 support in trunk after Ant 1.8.3 is released. It is long past EOL
<http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html> and cumbersome to even get installed for testing. (Note that JDK 5 is also past EOL, but I am not proposing
dropping JDK 5 support in this vote.)
Switching trunk sources to assume JDK 5 would, among other things, permit use of generics to make code clearer. It is also possible that annotations could be used to
document tasks/types and their configuration. And of course there are various API enhancements that may be of use; a search for "jdk1.5" in build.xml shows some things
that could be simplified, and there is likely more that would be used if it were easy to do so.
[X] +1: announce that 1.8.3 will be the last version of Ant to support JDK 1.4,
and after it is branched, permit trunk sources to assume JDK 5+, updating CI
jobs accordingly
[ ] ±0: not sure, maybe continuing to support JDK 1.4 is useful, leave it alone
for now
[ ] -1: please no, we still need to support JDK 1.4 in 1.8.4 or 1.9
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