Re: Future of JDK 5 support in Ant

2013-07-28 Thread Nicolas Lalevée
I have always been able to hack the java installs on Mac OS X to be able to run the java 1.4 and 1.5, even if their official support were dropped a long time ago. But since that last OS upgrade, they don't run anymore. Now I can only build against their rt.jar to verify that I am not using too y

Re: Future of JDK 5 support in Ant

2013-07-19 Thread Jesse Glick
On 07/19/2013 11:00 AM, Stefan Bodewig wrote: · javax.script instead of having to depend on BSH we already do that. Well, using reflection yes; the same is true of some other post-5 APIs. Updating the minimum version would merely allow the code to be simplified. ---

Re: Future of JDK 5 support in Ant

2013-07-19 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On 2013-07-18, Jesse Glick wrote: > It has now been almost a year and a half since I called a vote to drop > JDK 1.4 support for 1.9.0. Is anyone thinking about when to drop JDK 5 > support for running Ant itself, e.g. in 1.10.0 or whatever? TBH I've been slacking with the 1.9.2 release and built

Future of JDK 5 support in Ant

2013-07-17 Thread Jesse Glick
It has now been almost a year and a half since I called a vote to drop JDK 1.4 support for 1.9.0. Is anyone thinking about when to drop JDK 5 support for running Ant itself, e.g. in 1.10.0 or whatever? (Keeping the ability to fork older tools for etc. of course.) Jenkins has already done so in de