Re: Java version required for trunk

2008-10-20 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On Sun, 19 Oct 2008, Martijn Kruithof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know i have not been really active for some time now don't worry, we all have times where we can contribute more and times when we can't do as much as we wanted to. > The choice should not only be based on what new language fea

Re: Java version required for trunk

2008-10-19 Thread Martijn Kruithof
Hello I know i have not been really active for some time now (changed house, then job) yet I manage to remember previous discussions. I still feel that the following reasoning is flawed: There has been some discussion about dropping support for Java 1.3 in trunk. One of the aguments against

Re: Java version required for trunk

2008-10-15 Thread Maarten Coene
5:02:40 PM Subject: Re: Java version required for trunk On Wed, 15 Oct 2008, Jeffrey E. Care <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think moving to 1.4 is fine; I'm actually kind of surprised that > we've even go that low. Do we have a sense that people are still out > there in the

Re: Java version required for trunk

2008-10-15 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On Wed, 15 Oct 2008, Jeffrey E. Care <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think moving to 1.4 is fine; I'm actually kind of surprised that > we've even go that low. Do we have a sense that people are still out > there in the wild using JDK 1.4? I'm one of them myself, stuck with a customer who has fina

RE: Java version required for trunk

2008-10-15 Thread Rick Genter
> From: Jeffrey E Care [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 4:32 AM > To: Ant Developers List > Subject: Re: Java version required for trunk > > I think moving to 1.4 is fine; I'm actually kind of surprised that > we've > even go that l

Re: Java version required for trunk

2008-10-15 Thread Jeffrey E Care
Stefan Bodewig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 10/15/2008 12:31:21 AM: > [snip] > > There has been some discussion about dropping support for Java 1.3 in > trunk. One of the aguments against it was that 1.4 doesn't offer > anything new and going from 1.3 to Java5 was too big a step. > > Given that

Re: Java version required for trunk

2008-10-14 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi, > There has been some discussion about dropping support for Java 1.3 in > trunk. One of the aguments against it was that 1.4 doesn't offer > anything new and going from 1.3 to Java5 was too big a step. I'd personally argue that Java5 doesn't really offer very much apart from window dressing,