On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 18:39 +0000, robert burrell donkin wrote: > On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 12:14 +1300, Simon Kitching wrote: > > Why is it necessary to use two different JVMs? > > need a 1.4 JVM to compile the java.util stuff but the rest of the code > needs to run fine on earlier JVMs. > > javac settings will care of the differences in class formats but changes > to the system libraries mean that you should compile against the 1.2 > java system libraries. this can be done either by using a 1.2 JSDK or by > using a later JSDK and setting bootclasspath appropriately. > > if we were confident that our unit tests had 100% code coverage then > compiling with a 1.4 JSDK would probably be safe enough. i'm not that > confident and every other JCL release i've cut has used 2 JSDKs. so, i'm > more confident to use the system i know works.
Ok, sounds entirely reasonable. I agree there are corner cases where target doesn't solve the problem (eg the new StringBuffer overloaded methods in more recent JVMs). It might be nice to note this somewhere, eg as a comment in the build.xml file or similar. Cheers, Simon --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
