I'm with Shane on this. +1 on dropping support for JDK 1.1.8 compliation and runtime as soon as everyone else wants to. This means that, as the opportunity presents itself, we can remove the reflection code checking for things like Thread.getContextClassLoader and just reference that directly.
Gary > -----Original Message----- > From: Shane Curcuru [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 11:21 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Second call: Does anyone still really require > Java 1.1 support? > > > A couple of notes: > > -1 to dropping JDK 1.1.8 support before our official 2.3 > release (within a week-ish) -sc > > +1 to dropping JDK 1.1.8 support after our 2.3 release; at this point > we would require a minium of JDK 1.2.2 to compile & run Xalan. -sc > > This is essentially a call for a vote by the Xalan committers > and call for comments from the Xalan community. If we don't > hear clear comments (and have volunteers to help) about > changing this, you should assume we'll make this change in > the next few weeks. > > - Shane > (P.S. sorry Gary et al for dropping the ball on 1.1.8 > compilation last week... 8-) > > ---- you [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote ---- > > I know _we've_ all upgraded (except for folks running MSVJ+, whom > even > > Microsoft has abandoned)... but when we asked this a year or so ago, > some > > of you said you had customers who were absolutely unwilling to > upgrade. > > I think it's time to ask whether that's still an issue, and whether > Xalan > > wants to continue to cater to (and be limited by) that audience. > Sticking > > with the older classes may be costing us performance, though that > hasn't > > been firmly established yet. > > So: If we cut over, how loud will the explosion be? > > ===== > <eof aka="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]"; > "http://www.otnemem.com/"=.sig /> > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Send FREE Valentine eCards with Yahoo! Greetings! http://greetings.yahoo.com
