Even tho most committers, I believe, run 1.4 as their regular JVM's these days, we've always tried to ensure that POI runs properly in a jdk 1.3 environment. Any 1.4'isms therefore are usually the result of overlooking, rather than policy.
Personally, I've tried to occasionally compile and test in a 1.3 environment, to ensure we stay 1.3 clean. However, this is getting increasingly difficult to do, particularly for people running Linux for various reasons [1]. However, I suppose keeping 1.3 compatibility is important for many of our users. So this mail is really to say that if running poi in JDK1.3 is important to you then: 1. Please say so 2. Someone please volunteer to compile and test latest CVS once in a while to ensure we stay 1.3 clean. Regards - Avik [1] Sun JDK 1.3 do not run well in recent Linux distributions,incl Fedora. See http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/long_list.cgi?buglist=110610 for an explanation. Gump no longer does 1.3 runs. Many libraries that one downloads these days are NOT compiled with 1.3 bytecode compatibility, therefore throwing "invalid class" errors when run with jdk 1.3 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
