The case for us supporting Java 1.3 is that someone is actively maintaining an application based on Java 1.3 only and wants to upgrade CLI 1.1 to 1.2. How likely is that?
As we all know, Java 1.3.1 is done: "On Windows, Linux, Solaris 9, and Solaris 10 J2SE 1.3.1 has completed the Sun End of Life (EOL) process." [1] I say it is time for CLI 1.x to move on to Java 1.4.2. Gary [1] http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/index.jsp Full quote: "On Windows, Linux, Solaris 9, and Solaris 10 J2SE 1.3.1 has completed the Sun End of Life (EOL) process. The EOL transition period was from Oct 25, 2004 until the General Availability (GA) of Java SE 6 on December 11th, 2006. With this notice, customers are strongly encouraged to migrate to the current release, Java SE 6. > Read More. A paid Java Vintage Support Offering is available for those customers who are interested in continuing to obtain support for the release. Please contact your Sun sales representative for details." -----Original Message----- From: sebb [mailto:seb...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 11:11 AM To: Commons Developers List Subject: Re: [VOTE] Release Commons CLI 1.2 (RC5) Duh - ignore that. Just noticed that ParserTestCase is an abstract class... I used "mvn ant:ant" to create the build file so I could test with 1.3 and the generated file did not exclude ParserTestCase. When it is excluded, the tests complete OK. Perhaps there is a case for renaming that class ;-) More seriously, if a release targets 1.3, it should include some way of building and testing the code using 1.3. On 10/03/2009, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > That would certainly help with testing... > > I tried removing the test case with the Java 1.4 class, and the test > still fails on Java 1.3.1_20 (Win/XP). > > The failure is > > Cannot instantiate test case: testSimpleShort > (java.lang.InstantiationException: > org.apache.commons.cli.ParserTestCase > at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Native Method) > at junit.framework.TestSuite.createTest(TestSuite.java:131) > at junit.framework.TestSuite.addTestMethod(TestSuite.java:114) > at junit.framework.TestSuite.<init>(TestSuite.java:75) > > This appears to be caused by the setUp() method which creates an > Options() instance and adds 3 options to it. If the code is changed to > add only 2 options, the failure does not occur, but of course some of > the tests fail. Odder yet, adding another option allows setUp() to > work, but still some tests fail. > > Looks like Java 1.3.1_20 or JUnit 3.8.1 or the combination is broken. > > Is it worth trying to support 1.3 now? > > > On 10/03/2009, Gary Gregory <ggreg...@seagullsoftware.com> wrote: > > Why not change the Java req. to Java 1.4 for CLI 1.2? (Hides from flying > tomatoes.) > > > > > > Gary > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: sebb [mailto:seb...@gmail.com] > > Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 5:45 AM > > > > To: Commons Developers List > > Subject: Re: [VOTE] Release Commons CLI 1.2 (RC5) > > > > -1 > > > > Will not build on Java 1.3 as java.sql.ParameterMetaData is @since 1.4. > > > > So at least the Java source version in the POM needs changing. > > I've not yet tried testing on Java 1.3 after building on 1.4 > > > > Also the site does not appear to mention the minimum Java requirements > anywhere. > > > > BTW, if it is decided to move to Java 1.4 as a minimum, JUnit should > > be updated to 3.8.2. > > > > On 10/03/2009, Gary Gregory <ggreg...@seagullsoftware.com> wrote: > > > +1 > > > > > > Builds and tests on Sun Java 1.6.0_12 on Windows XP SP3. > > > > > > > > > Gary > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Henri Yandell [mailto:flame...@gmail.com] > > > Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 6:41 PM > > > To: Commons Developers List > > > Subject: [VOTE] Release Commons CLI 1.2 (RC5) > > > > > > One more shot :) > > > > > > > > > Tag: > > > > > > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/commons/proper/cli/tags/cli-1.2-RC5 > > > > > > Site remains unchanged: > > > > > > http://people.apache.org/~bayard/cli-1.2-rc1 > > > > > > Binaries: > > > > > > > http://people.apache.org/builds/commons/cli/1.2/RC5/staged/commons-cli/commons-cli/1.2/ > > > > > > [ ] +1 release it > > > [ ] +0 go ahead I don't care > > > [ ] -1 no, do not release it because > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
