on 12/9/2000 11:43 AM, "James Duncan Davidson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> To the argument that there's still JDK 1.1 development happening -- a few > comments. > > 1) JDK 1.3 is out. It's probably time to upgrade. Are you still running > Windows 3.1 in your enterprise? If so, you probably need to get a new job -- > I know of lots of places in the valley hiring right now.. :) > > 2) JDK 1.2 based compilers do generate code that will run on 1.1. Just don't > use those class libs that are not on 1.1. 2a) Jikes will still produce code that works fine on 1.1 environments. > 3) Ant 1.x will always be there for support of JDK 1.1. I'm not sure that it > makes since to burden every future version of Ant with support for 1.1 when > we've already got something that works there. 4) For the people who are still confused and just don't get it, this is the *build environment* that would have the JDK 1.2 requirement. It doesn't matter if your code execution still has a JDK 1.1 requirement because you can still use Ant to compile your 1.1 code. thanks, -jon
