on 12/9/2000 2:58 PM, "Sam Ruby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jon Stevens wrote: >> >> However, you can have both JVM's installed on your machine >> at the same time and given the fact that 1.1 code runs >> fine on 1.2 JVM's this would be a great migration path. > > While I am personally +1 on having Ant 2 prereq Java 2, I fee that I must > point out that the above is not entirely true. > > If you take the 3.1 source of Tomcat and build it using a JDK 1.1 vintage > javac, the results will run correctly on 1.1 but not on 1.2. (I imagine > that this is still true with the 3.2 version of Tomcat, but I haven't tried > the combination of TC 3.2 on JDK 1.1.x). > > Furthermore, if you take the version of Ant that was used in the Tomcat 3.1 > timeframe, you will find that the results will compile with JDK 1.3, but > the code will not execute correctly. > > My point is that the incompatiblities between JDK releases is not > theoretical, and even affects relatively small projects such as Ant and > Tomcat. My point is that you can install ALL the different revisions of the JDK on your machine and build using whichever one works for you. :-) > My suggestion is that Ant 1 and Ant 2 be allowed to continue in parallel > for as long as there is developer interest in both. I don't think anything else along those has been suggested by anyone. JServ is still around. :-) -jon -- Honk if you love peace and quiet.
