I am in favour of setting the minimum J2SE to 1.4 after the 0.93
release.
+1
Web Maestro Clay
On Oct 9, 2006, at 7:11 AM, Simon Pepping wrote:
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?
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