I'll put in my: -1 vote on getting rid of JDK 1.1.x compatibility for using Ant. As [EMAIL PROTECTED] mentioned, there still are lots of projects and companies and users who are still required to use JDK 1.1.x. Yes, technologically, many of them could be upgraded to 1.2+ - but many of them are still not ready to do that.
Note that for bootstrapping *only*, I'd vote -0 for getting rid of JDK 1.1.x compatibility, if that makes any difference. I could see the argument where anyone needing to build Ant itself before using it might reasonably have JDK 1.2, as long as using a precompiled Ant works normally on 1.1.x. I imagine many users don't need the bootstrapping, they just pick up a shipped build and go. Also, I'd think this kind of suggestion would really need to get floated around on ant-user as well. >> This will make ant (or the bootstrap, at least) not compatible with 1.1, I >> believe. Is that going to be part of Ant 2's charter? >> >> Conor > >+1. I'm tired of supporting JDK 1.1.x. There are now 1.2 JVM's on nearly >ever major platform. > >We have removed support for 1.1.x in Turbine and haven't heard a single >complaint. - Shane - Xalan Test/Build
