[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 07/12/2002 01:36:35 PM: > On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Diane Holt wrote: > > > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > It seems many commiters feel supporting JDK1.1 is no longer necesary > > > and having ant1.5 the last one supporting it is reasonable. All it > > > takes is a vote. > > > > I thought the idea was to keep Ant1.x 1.1-compatible, and make the break > > at Ant2. Did that change over the course of this thread and I missed it? > > I thought the idea was that ant2 will have those famous incompatible API/ > build.xml changes ( or will just be the next release after 1.9 :-). > > It seems many people want to stop supporting 1.1 - I'm usually against,
I don't think anyone wanted to stop supporting Ant 1.x anymore, just as Tomcat 3.x is still supported and developed, but many want a move to a new architecture and requirements with Ant 2. > but if indeed nobody uses 1.1 anymore ( for development at least ) I don't > see why it has to wait until ant2. > > Each version includes the features and supports whatever the commiters > decide. We've seen a lot of pain in keeping 1.5 compatible with JDK1.1, > and having a better class loading in 1.6 would outweight > the lost of 1.1. > > Costin -- dIon Gillard, Multitask Consulting Work: http://www.multitask.com.au Developers: http://adslgateway.multitask.com.au/developers
