I'm with Elliotte on this. Until someone can show a proper difference in
benchmarks or some such based on a distinctly 1.2 feature, I think we
should keep backwards compatibility if possible. On the other hand, I'm
willing to have my mind changed if someone can make a strong case that
we're lowering the quality of the product by staying with the old.
-scott
Elliotte Rusty
Harold To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<elharo@metala cc:
b.unc.edu> Subject: Re: Second call: Does anyone
still really require Java
1.1 support?
02/06/2002
02:29 PM
Please respond
to xalan-dev
>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 a community call to keep 1.1 support. The vast majority of
the Macintosh installed base still cannot run Java 1.2. Until MacOS 9
is no longer a common option among Mac users I can't see abandoning
Java 1.1.
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