Re: Dropping support for 1.3 (was Re: PropertySets)

2004-01-07 Thread Christian Geisert
J.Pietschmann wrote: [..] Acutually I doubt FOP 0.20.5 will run completely in an 1.2 environment. The binary is compiled with 1.4.1, and I vaguely remember compiling No, with 1.3 problems already for 0.20.4 on 1.2. See http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fop-devm=102372166019810w=2 Christian

Re: Dropping support for 1.3 (was Re: PropertySets)

2004-01-07 Thread Peter B. West
J.Pietschmann wrote: Chris Bowditch wrote: The main thing to bear in mind is that a few platforms dont support the later versions of Java. This will mean excluding those users from deploying FOP on their production servers and mainframes. Well. Java 1.4 has some added goodies, in particular

Dropping support for 1.3 (was Re: PropertySets)

2004-01-06 Thread Chris Bowditch
Glen Mazza wrote: It's probably not *yet* time to set 1.4 as the JDK to code against for 1.0, but it probably wouldn't be much of a disaster if we did so either. The main thing to bear in mind is that a few platforms dont support the later versions of Java. This will mean excluding those users

Re: Dropping support for 1.3 (was Re: PropertySets)

2004-01-06 Thread Clay Leeds
Thanks for clarifying this Chris. I wasn't certain whether Glen was referring to FOP *development* requiring Java 1.4 SDK or FOP *deployment* requiring 1.4. It appears you are thinking he's referring to *deployment* as well, so my thought process isn't totally off-base. FOP requires Java 1.2.x

Re: Dropping support for 1.3 (was Re: PropertySets)

2004-01-06 Thread J.Pietschmann
Chris Bowditch wrote: The main thing to bear in mind is that a few platforms dont support the later versions of Java. This will mean excluding those users from deploying FOP on their production servers and mainframes. Well. Java 1.4 has some added goodies, in particular nestable exceptions which