On 1/24/06, David Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I code to the 1.4 API but deploy on 1.5 when possible. > > Moving off 1.3 is safe because: > 1. 1.3 is not supported by Sun anymore. > > 2. Struts requires 1.4 and Validator is primarily used by Struts folks. > Sure there are some that use it standalone but the percentage of total > users is miniscule. > > 3. 1.3 users will always have the older releases of Validator to use. > They won't get the new features but they should be used to that since > they're using Java 1.3.
I agree - I think we should probably have one more validator release (1.2.1) for JDK 1.3 since I've fixed a few bugs recently and then move to JDK 1.4 Niall > David > > > --- Niall Pemberton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What JDK version are you using? > > > > --------------------- > > [ ] JDK 1.2 > > [ ] JDK 1.3 > > [X] JDK 1.4 > > [X] JDK 1.5 (or JDK 5) > > --------------------- > > > > I'm mainly interested in the impact of moving Commons Valdator a > > minimum dependency of JDK 1.4 to use the RegExp support rather than > > depending on ORO. However, other commons components may be interested > > in your answer, so it would be useful if you could indicate which > > Commons components you are using (or interested in using), especially > > Validator :-) > > > > tia > > > > Niall --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
