Hi Michael, Thanks for your thoughts. I agree completely to your view points, and that's now also my position :)
I'll share this mail thread to PsychoPath forum, as reference to Xerces-J team's position in this regard. On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 9:46 PM, Michael Glavassevich<[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Mukul, > > I think it would be ideal if Xerces shipped with something that worked out > of the box, so would be nice if in the release that assertions could work > with JDK 1.3 like the rest of Xerces. That doesn't mean that the main > development stream of PsychoPath would need to stick to that level and > certainly wouldn't expect that the Eclipse developers would want to bend > over backwards to support it. I think it would be sufficient to produce a > Java 1.3 compatible version at a point where PsychoPath has reasonable > conformance to XPath 2.0 and include that with Xerces. I believe we could > get away with only doing that once and telling users in the documentation to > go to eclipse.org to download newer versions which may have higher JDK > requirements than Xerces and also about where they can get Saxon if they > want it to use it instead. > > As to what level the main development of PsychoPath in Eclipse really should > support, I think the folks discussing this should keep in mind that Sun is > not the only Java runtime vendor / producer. There are others: IBM, Apache > Harmony, GNU Classpath, etc... which may be at different stages of > development / support of the various levels of Java and may support those > further into the future than Sun does. Even Sun provides support [1] past > those quoted EOL dates so the actual lifetimes of runtimes (from Sun or > elsewhere) at Java 1.3, 1.4, 5, 6, etc.. levels may be much longer than > that. Developers often have no choice in the matter, having to write new > code for a larger project that must run with an older version of Java. That > isn't to say that Java 1.3 is a good choice for PsychoPath, but that there > are other factors that one should consider in making the decision besides > the opinion of a handful of people on a Bugzilla issue who may or may not > really be representative of the community who would be using (or developing) > the software. > > Thanks. > > [1] http://www.sun.com/software/javaseforbusiness/support.jsp > > Michael Glavassevich > XML Parser Development > IBM Toronto Lab > E-mail: [email protected] > E-mail: [email protected] -- Regards, Mukul Gandhi --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
