Absolutely, +1.
At 05:12 PM 9/21/01 -0400, Art Welch wrote:
>I was not sure if we were actually taking a vote yet... Anyhow my vote is:
>
>+1 to change the minimum required JVM version to 1.2.
>
>As has been mentioned previously, FOP already does not work with JDK 1.1
>anymore (since Batik).
>
>I am one of the poor souls stuck with JDK 1.1 (at least until next year
>anyway). We have been able to make a version of FOP that works under JDK 1.1
>using some 0.20 code and some old SVG stuff, but it was a royal pain.
>(Actually Badri R did most of the work on this for me). But I agree that at
>this point FOP needs to move ahead.
>
>Art
>(works for EastPoint Technologies - what a joke)
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Karen Lease [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 5:19 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: Performance and java 1.1
>
>
>Keiron Liddle wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I have been doing some performance testing so we can get an idea of how
>> things might be improving (or getting worse) with changes to the code.
>[snip]
>> So the question is: can we drop java 1.1 support and use better data
>> structures?
>
>
>Interesting results!
>With java 1.4 just around the corner, I think we can and should "byte"
>the bullet and stop trying to keep FOP compilable with Java 1.1. I know
>there are a few loyal Fop users out there whose corporate structures are
>still several versions behind. It's too bad for them, but FOP _is not_
>legacy software and should be able to move quickly.
>
>It's also hard for us to keep the code compatible since I suppose almost
>all of us are developing on at least Java 1.2.
>So +1 for me.
>
>Karen
>
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