I am in favour of setting the minimum J2SE to 1.4 after the 0.93 release. Simon
On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 11:58:27AM +0200, Jeremias Maerki wrote: > Last week on the Cocoon GetTogether we discussed J2SE requirements for > FOP. I brought it up because the end-of-life phase for J2SE 1.3.1 ends > soon, probably this month. See: > http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/download.html > > There was an argument on Cocoon-dev which gave me a new view on the > topic: > http://www.nabble.com/-Vote--Java-5-as-minimum-JDK-requirement-tf2072590.html#a5718669 > http://www.nabble.com/-poll--Java-5-as-minimum-requirement-for-Cocoon-2.2-tf2083663.html > > In short, the argument was made that a company who is still on J2SE > 1.3.1 would probably not upgrade their system and still stay on 1.3.1 so > they also don't need any new XML Graphics releases on 1.3.1. Applying > this and the fact that Sun will drop normal support for J2SE 1.3.1 by > the end of October (if J2SE 6.0 is delivered on time), we can probably > safely up our minimum requirements to 1.4.2, making our lives a little > easier for releases after the EOL of J2SE 1.3.1. > > I send this here because for Batik and Commons the same question can be > raised. Thomas indicated himself that it becomes increasingly difficult > to keep everything compatible with J2SE 1.3. And my impression is the > same. > > My proposal would be to do this: Poll the FOP and Batik user communities > again for the necessity to still support new releases on J2SE 1.3 > specifically asking why people are still on 1.3 but having the need to > upgrade their FOP and/or Batik installation. I'd then propose to release > Commons 1.1 and FOP 0.93 still with support for J2SE 1.3 but setting the > minimum J2SE to 1.4 after that. Batik could already do this for the next > release as this will still take a while to finish I think. > > Thoughts? > > Jeremias Maerki > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Apache XML Graphics Project URL: http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/ > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Simon Pepping home page: http://www.leverkruid.eu --------------------------------------------------------------------- Apache XML Graphics Project URL: http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
