Last september it has been decided to drop JDK 1.1 support mostly out of performance reasons. Almost every reasonable platform has a Java 2 implementation available today and there are not many projects left at Apache Foundation that still support JDK 1.1.
My 'platform' is a slot loading iMac.
It should be a general goal of Open Source projects to be backwards compatible. My understanding is that it should be possible to use a tool like ant to extract a Java 1.1 subset.
I would like my product to support Mac and Windows systems from 1998 on, on the basis/functional specification that my product (of which FOP is only a part) should be installable and usable on all Macs of the same age or newer than mine, and Windows with a suitable version of Java installed. It is also my understanding that the latest version of Blackdown java is 1.1.8, exempli gratia <URL: http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux/info.html >
Of course I am not sure that ant runs on the classic MacOS, so I am dependant on my finding myself a linux machine to generate the sources. I will do this, I just don't have the technology at present. There again I am not certain that ant doesn't, as it is possible that one of the many projects called JShell, I think this one <URL: http://homepage.mac.com/pcbeard/JShell/ >, will run ant.
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That's probably something that has to be adressed in the redesign because as far as I can remember this was one of the reasons the redesign was started in the first place. I'm sure you can help in that corner.
I am listening out for any info on this, but it seems that this redesign is something that only the inner circle can do...
Ben.
