For my money, changing the JDK requirement for James needs a vote. At the same time, I'm happy to make 1.4 the requirement, if , say someone wants too use the Assertion Facility, NIO or java.util.regex.* etc.
Charles Noel J. Bergman wrote: >>So the answer is Java 1.3 > > > Danny also said "avalon dependancies may limit this to 1.4 for 2.1x versions > (head of cvs)" and "newer [than 2.0a3] releases will be compiled by 1.4." > > So far I haven't had a problem running the CVS (2.1) release with JDK 1.3, > but I don't know if newer releases of the Avalon components will require > 1.4. As I understand it, so far there is not a requirement for JDK 1.4 in > either James or the Avalon components we depend upon. > > However, as I understood your question, you want to know if/when it is OK to > start making use of JDK 1.4 capabilities in James. That question doesn't > appear to be answered by TFM. > > --- Noel > > -----Original Message----- > From: Peter M. Goldstein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2002 5:47 > To: 'James Developers List'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Random Version Question Time > > Danny et al, > > Sorry about that. Don't know how I missed it. :) > > So the answer is Java 1.3 > > --Peter > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Danny Angus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >>Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2002 2:06 AM >>To: James Developers List; [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: RE: Random Version Question Time >> >>pgoldstein wrote: >> >> >>>I'd like this detail to be someplace very obvious. Is there a >>>consensus on this? >> >>RTFM >> >>Peter _read_ the james homepage http://jakarta.apache.org/james/index.html >>and you'll see it states "James requires Java 2 (either JRE 1.3 or 1.4 >>as of 2.0a3)" >> >>James 2.0a3 will build and run under 1.3 or 1.4, I believe avalon >>dependancies may limit this to 1.4 for 2.1x versions (head of cvs) >>Serge hacked the db pool and build.xml to compile against the correct >>version of JDBC for the JDK version being used. >> >>Up to 2.0a3 binary releases made by me were compiled by 1.3, newer >>releases will be compiled by 1.4 on the principle that we should >>be using the latest stable JDK for releases where possible. >> >>d. > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
