Your summary is correct. The currently released version of cactus is not compatible with JDK 1.5. There are four levels at which this can be fixed, ranked by ease of use/percent of cactus users who will be able to run under JDK 1.5: 1. Have a description of how to rebuild cactus to make it JDK 1.5 compatible. 2. Have an unofficial jar linked to from the JDK 1.5 bug description that works under JDK 1.5. The steps to download this jar, and obtain the appropriate cactus supporting libraries to work with it, are described in http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CACTUS-150?page=comments. This is the current level at which this issue is fixed. 3. Issue a full milestone release that is JDK 1.5 compatible, and which can be downloaded and used just like a normal cactus release. 4. Issue a new standard JDK 1.5 compatible release, linked to from the main cactus page.
I'm proposing that an earlier level 4 fix has some major advantages over level 3, which is also under consideration. I enumerated those advantages in my original email below. As a final note, I really appreciated the extremely prompt level 2 fix for the problem (thanks Felipe). Thanks, Ari -----Original Message----- From: Vincent Massol [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 11:17 AM To: 'Cactus Developers List' Subject: RE: 1.7 release Thanks Ari for this feedback. If I understand what you're saying we need to make to make a JDK 1.5-compatible release as soon as possible because people currently trying the last released Cactus with JDK 1.5 will find that it's not supported. Am I right? :-) Thanks -Vincent > -----Original Message----- > From: Ari Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: vendredi 5 novembre 2004 02:39 > To: Cactus Developers List > Subject: RE: 1.7 release > > There are advantages to having the major release available on the cactus > website compatible with JDK 1.5, rather than just issuing a milestone or > nightly release that is JDK 1.5 compatible. An increasing percentage of > the people who use cactus will be doing so under JDK 1.5, and many will > just give up when it doesn't work, rather than looking for a milestone > build. Also, one of the first things people will do when trying out JDK > 1.5 is to run their unit tests, so having a version of cactus that is > incompatible will become obvious much earlier than with other system > components. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Felipe Leme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 5:24 PM > To: Cactus Developers List > Subject: RE: 1.7 release > > On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 18:36, Vincent Massol wrote: > > > The main issue is that it takes time to do this. In any case, if > you're > > interested in doing it, please go ahead :-) > > Yes, I would be glad to do it. The only problem is that I don't know how > - I would know how to create the CVS tag and build the dist-13, but I'm > not sure how to get the release (I tried ant release or ant release.all > before, but it didn't work). Could you please help me on that? (I > promise that I will create a nice xdoc describing the process afterwards > :-) > > -- Felipe > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
