On Wed, 06 Apr 2005, Jesse Glick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Has anyone given thought to when we drop support for running Ant on JDK 1.2/1.3? These releases are pretty old by now and AFAIK all major platforms have had a decent 1.4 port for a while.
We still have a customer who rejects to go beyond 1.3 right now. I'm talking about a webcenter with tons of legacy Java apps (unfortunately none written by us). The risk that one of them breaks is simply too high.
I still use JDK 1.3 on my Linux box as my day-to-day JDK.
These are just datapoints. I'd have to support JDK 1.2 and this is certainly easier to do if your compiler is a JDK 1.2 one, which is easiest to do if Ant runs on JDK 1.2. But I can achieve the same with 1.2 support in Ant as well.
The risk with 1.2 is that we dont have the execution environment for regression.
All in all I'm -0.5 on dropping JDK 1.2 for Ant 1.7 and -0.75 on dropping JDK 1.3 for Ant 1.7.
I'm -1 on dropping 1.3 , 0 on 1.2
what is the cost of 1.2 support? The1.1 to 1.2 transition was profound, but things are relatively stable until the 1.4->1.5 transition, as long as you avoid javax.security. I have 1.5 on my desktop, and regularly get cruise control mail that I have checked in a 1.5-ism, even with language level left at 1.4
Personally. I'd be happer dropping Win9x support :)
But note that you can't even run the last JDK 1.2 maintenance release on a recent Linux distribution, unless you use an obscure LD_PRELOAD hack (*).
I don't run a /recent/ Linux distro either ;-)
There could be a reason to not drop JDK 1.3 support before FreeBSD has a decent JDK 1.4 (Apache's infrastructure has some bias towards FreeBSD).
Stefan
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