Daniel John Debrunner wrote:
Rick Hillegas wrote:
My understanding is that once Java SE 6 goes GA, 1.3 will become an
unsupported platform. See the end-of-life disclaimer at the top of
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/download.html.
That of course is for Sun's VMs, other providers of 1.3 VMs may have
different end of service dates, but it is irrelevant since as you say
we voted to allow discontinuing 1.3 support with 10.3 onwards.
When we polled the user community last year, no-one said that they
were using 1.3. The developer community voted to stop supporting 1.3
in the 10.3 release. After Java SE 6 goes GA, I think we should amend
the Derby build to swap out 1.3 and swap in Java SE 6.
Not sure the two is connected, or that we are ready to require JDK 6
to build Derby. Is it available on MacOS yet for example.
Dan.
I agree we don't have to couple the two changes. We could deprecate the
1.3 build now. I don't know about the timing of a GA MacOS version.
Allegedly, some beta version exists. See bullet 2 under News on
https://jdk6.dev.java.net/. See also
https://connect.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/MemberSite.woa/wa/getSoftware?bundleID=19650.
Based on the Mustang download page
(http://download.java.net/jdk6/binaries/), I expect that the GA of Java
SE 6 will come with implementations for the following platforms:
Windows x86
Windows AMD64
Solaris Sparc 32-bit
Solaris Sparc 64-bit
Solarix x86
Solaris AMD64
Linux x86
Linux AMD64
Besides these platforms and MacOS, what other platforms need an
implementation of Java SE 6 before we require it for the build? Are
there IBM implementations we should wait for? Any other implementations
which the community needs?
Regards,
-Rick
