Re: Dropping JDK 1.2 support for Xerces-J (and possibly JDK 1.3? 1.4? in the future)

2008-11-11 Thread Jeremias Maerki
On 11.11.2008 14:52:52 sebb wrote: On 11/11/2008, Shane Curcuru [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +1 to dropping 1.2 support. +1 to dropping 1.2 +0 to dropping 1.3 I think 1.4 support should be kept if possible for a while yet. Agreed. Xerces is such a basic library and so many companies are

Re: Dropping JDK 1.2 support for Xerces-J (and possibly JDK 1.3? 1.4? in the future)

2008-11-11 Thread sebb
On 11/11/2008, Shane Curcuru [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +1 to dropping 1.2 support. +1 to dropping 1.2 +0 to dropping 1.3 I think 1.4 support should be kept if possible for a while yet. Please - be sure that the main website clearly lists the last release we think that Xerces worked on JDK

RE: Dropping JDK 1.2 support for Xerces-J (and possibly JDK 1.3? 1.4? in the future)

2008-11-11 Thread Schmidlin, Franck
a new infusion of activity and interest. you betcha, most of us would be up in arms! I personally am stuck on 1.4.2 for the foreseeable future. So +1 to drop 1.2/3 support, but let's not get too drastic please. __ Franck Schmidlin Corporate Integration Consultant

Re: Dropping JDK 1.2 support for Xerces-J (and possibly JDK 1.3? 1.4? in the future)

2008-11-11 Thread Nathan Beyer
+1 I'd suggest just jumping to Java 5 library, source and target compilation. I think this would give the project a new infusion of activity and interest. -Nathan On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 9:51 PM, Michael Glavassevich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, (including general@xml.apache.org on the cc

RE: Dropping JDK 1.2 support for Xerces-J (and possibly JDK 1.3? 1.4? in the future)

2008-11-11 Thread Michael Glavassevich
Any idea how this poll was done? A form you could submit on a website? Jeremias, seeing your name as the last editor on the Wiki I'm guessing you had something to do with it. Was this poll easy to set up? Thanks. Michael Glavassevich XML Parser Development IBM Toronto Lab E-mail: [EMAIL

Re: Dropping JDK 1.2 support for Xerces-J (and possibly JDK 1.3? 1.4? in the future)

2008-11-11 Thread Michael Glavassevich
Shane Curcuru [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 11/11/2008 08:08:50 AM: +1 to dropping 1.2 support. Please - be sure that the main website clearly lists the last release we think that Xerces worked on JDK version x.y. Xerces is ubiquitous, and is used directly or within other products virtually

Re: Dropping JDK 1.2 support for Xerces-J (and possibly JDK 1.3? 1.4? in the future)

2008-11-11 Thread Jeremias Maerki
Yes, Michael, I was the driving force behind that. I wanted to make sure that we've made an informed decision before dropping support for one JDK or another. Developers obviously like the new stuff but users are sometimes stuck with old stuff. It often takes them a bit longer to migrate although