Stephane Bailliez wrote:
As for JDK1.1 compat - I'm strongly against making the new interfaces require 1.2. There is absolutely no justification. I'm ok with using
1.2 in the implementation - since 1.1 implementations will be possible.
I must be missing something. How do you plan to make it work in a 1.1 if your implementation is 1.2 ?
On top of that, I recall that you can use Ant in 1.2 to compile code with javac from 1.1, right?
What's the problem?
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I hope everyone realize how many users ant has - I suspect more people
use ant than JDK1.4 today. There are huge investments in time and learning, books, etc. If we really want a new API for future - it better be _very_ good.
No one asked for JDK 1.4 so don't extrapolate.
I'm tired of Enumeration, toArray(), Vector/Hashtable, isFile() !isDirectory() or use reflection to get some benefits of JDK 1.2 methods if available. No need to reinvent and recode what has already been done and exists. Why should I need to recode a Manifest class ? unecessary code. We have load of unecessary codes like this. Should it be for creating a temp file. For copying the content of a vector into an array. etc...
Vector... ugh I agree with you.
Switch to JDK 1.2 will only avoid unecessary effort and unecessary checking that takes place for little or no benefit. No one force you to upgrade to something that requires JDK 1.2. If you are happy with your version and that you NEED JDK 1.1, then stick to it. period.
I'm definately for this.
While Java is going towards 1.5 and projects like Avalon are having 1.3 as an implementation requirement, Ant is still in 1.1 ...
Now, if Ant switches to 1.2, JDK 1.1 users can still use 1.5 Ant, what's the problem?
Sun made Swing workable in 1.1 at first, but then switched to at least 1.2... isn't it ime than new features (Ant's) can be build on new features (the Jdk's)?
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