----- Original Message ----- From: "Conor MacNeill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ant Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 14:26 Subject: Re: java 1.1 on linux
> On Wed, 19 Mar 2003 05:17 am, Costin Manolache wrote: > > > > Ok - last week we had a proposal, discussions on ant-user and ant-dev, and > > apparently an almost general consensus. > > > > What's next ? Should we wait a bit more before making it official by a > > [VOTE], or just forget the whole thing ? > > > > I will propose a vote tonight. I think we are clear that a move to a 1.2 based > codebase is desirable. Moving to 1.3 or 1.4 is not yet needed as the features > we would make use of are in 1.2 There was nobody begging on the mail list for retention of 1.1 support; indeed, the discussion drifted into Java1.4 vs 1.3, which was the direction I hadnt expected (but am pleasantly surprised). > What is less clear to me is whether 1.5 branch should be the last 1.1 codebase > or whether it should be 1.6. My preference would be to make it 1.5 since > somethings we need to do (i.e. lcp.bat replacement) are best done with a > URLClassLoader. 1.6 is still a ways off and if we designate it the last 1.1 > release nothing will change for quite a while. You'll have my vote. > > I'd like to settle this last aspect before we release 1.5.3 which I think we > need to release real soon now. +1. If we vote to move 1.6 up to 1.1, then we can pre-announce the fact in 1.5.3. And organise a global day of celebration, the 'ant moves to java1.2' day that will be rememered in postage stamps and obscure currencies for the next four centuries.
