Hello,
Endre Stølsvik wrote:
What is there in 1.4?! Unless you do heavy concurrent I/O, I haven't seen
anything that Java 1.4 supplies that isn't just "plain java"?
to get this all together:
There are a few dimensions for/against a special JDK Version:
1a) User base argumentation: How many people are running their
application with log4j and a JDK special version (percentage)?
1b) How many percent of the users with the oldest supported JDK version
must be there to say this has support worth?
1c) User migration argumentation: How many people will use a newer log4j
version and still stay at an older JDK version?
2) Feature argumentation: How many features are in JDK 1.2, 1.3, 1.4
which are useful/necessary for log4j 1.3
and still make it possible to switch from log4j 1.2.x to 1.3 without
changing application code (the compatibility issue)?
3) How long should an external API support "End-of-Life" systems? (Even
JDK 1.4.0 and 1.4.1 have the EOL sign,
see http://java.sun.com/downloads/ in the combo box).
There should be a formal vote for this kind of decisions with an summary
of the argumentations. There are conservative notes
in this thread (-> JDK 1.2.x) and there are more progressive sounds (->
JDK 1.3, 1.4 even 1.5). Both have good arguments.
Regards
Boris
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