Re: AW: ant java versions

2008-01-16 Thread Peter Reilly
On Jan 17, 2008 12:19 AM, Bruce Atherton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter Reilly wrote: > > There are a woe-full amount of java 1.3 users as well.. > > > > Peter > > > > > > And of 1.2 users that we abandoned during the 1.7 release. But the > thinking at that time, and I think it holds up here as

Re: AW: ant java versions

2008-01-16 Thread Bruce Atherton
Peter Reilly wrote: There are a woe-full amount of java 1.3 users as well.. Peter And of 1.2 users that we abandoned during the 1.7 release. But the thinking at that time, and I think it holds up here as well, is that if those users are too conservative to move beyond a JVM which has now

Re: AW: ant java versions

2008-01-16 Thread Peter Reilly
On Jan 16, 2008 10:28 AM, Steve Loughran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter Reilly wrote: > > > I do not think we should do this. > > As far as I know, there is no super compelling reason to make ant only > > work on java 1.4 +, > > > I was curious as it is a lot easier to do relative URLs with the

Re: AW: ant java versions

2008-01-16 Thread Steve Loughran
Peter Reilly wrote: I do not think we should do this. As far as I know, there is no super compelling reason to make ant only work on java 1.4 +, I was curious as it is a lot easier to do relative URLs with the java.net.URI class, which is java 1.4+ only java5, on the other hand we s

Re: AW: ant java versions

2008-01-15 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi, > Strange that there are deprecated warnings even on 1.3 ... > But the build works :) I'm pretty sure that the tests don't though :( Kev - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PRO

Re: AW: ant java versions

2008-01-15 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi all, > To me, the super-compelling reason is that if we claim to support Java > 1.3, then we have to make sure to test against it on all supported > platforms. This is a lot of extra work (on top of the testing for 1.4, > 1.5, and 1.6), particularly if none of us has Java 1.3 installed. This >

Re: AW: ant java versions

2008-01-15 Thread Bruce Atherton
To me, the super-compelling reason is that if we claim to support Java 1.3, then we have to make sure to test against it on all supported platforms. This is a lot of extra work (on top of the testing for 1.4, 1.5, and 1.6), particularly if none of us has Java 1.3 installed. This has bitten us i

Re: AW: ant java versions

2008-01-15 Thread Peter Reilly
On Jan 15, 2008 12:51 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>> 2. What is the minimum version of Ant that 1.8 is targeting? > > >> I'm not sure whether we've made any decision to change what we have > as > > >> a minimum requirement for 1.7. > > > > > > we dropped 1.2, so it is 1.3 > > > http://marc

Re: AW: ant java versions

2008-01-15 Thread Steve Loughran
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this is a silly question, but I have forgotten the current values 1. What is the minimum version of Ant that 1.7.0 supports? In theory the answer is 1.2, but I doubt that anybody really still has an environment to try that. 2. What is the minimum version of Ant that 1