On 12/2/05, Mario Ivankovits <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve Cohen wrote: > > > > The thread Robert refers to has the subject > > > > "Re: Does Apache have agreement to use other open source code outside > > of Apache?" > Has this something to do with an email from IBM in the last few days > asking me if I am really was the creator of my contributions? > Not that I made any mistake (I guess this was a mail to all commons-net > developers), but I was a little bit irritated.
Probably. The commons-net copyright question was raised by an IBM email. If you do get those questions, please make sure they get copied to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The PMC should be the one responsible for answering questions about our code. > > Which is just as well. Because I have another issue. I don't > > understand the maven.compile.target property. Working from the net > > 1.4.0 tag, I change only project.properties to set > > maven.compile.target back to 1.2. Since there are a few places in > > 1.4.0 that depend on jdk 1.4, my expectation was that changing the > > project properties would cause the compile to break on those places. > > But it did not. It compiled successfully. > The jdk1.4 compiler creates a class file suitable to run under an > earlier JVM, this works as long as you do not use any new api. Then > you'll get the NoSuchMethod Exception. > This is the reason why we should use the least possible compiler and not > only the target attribute. You didnt notice if you use any new api call > at compile time. > > > --- > Mario > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- http://www.multitask.com.au/people/dion/ "You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live." - George Bernard Shaw --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
