RE: log4j 1.3 minimum JDK (was Re: [VOTE] Release log4j 1.2.12rc3)

2005-08-17 Thread Endre Stølsvik
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Mark Womack wrote: | But is there some specific reason why we want to upgrade and be compatible | with only >= JDK 1.3? Is there some core class we really need to use in | order to make log4j better? If not, then I don't see a compelling reason to | self-limit ourselves to >

RE: log4j 1.3 minimum JDK (was Re: [VOTE] Release log4j 1.2.12rc3)

2005-08-17 Thread Endre Stølsvik
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Mark Womack wrote: | We can make it so that log4j is compatible with 1.2 and happy when it runs. | Just compile using jdk 1.2 instead of jdk 1.3 or 1.4. I think the messages | we are seeing are related to compiling the release lib with 1.4 instead of | 1.2 (or 1.1 in the case

Re: log4j 1.3 minimum JDK (was Re: [VOTE] Release log4j 1.2.12rc3)

2005-08-17 Thread Curt Arnold
On Aug 17, 2005, at 3:45 AM, Endre Stølsvik wrote: So, set source=1.2, target=1.2 and bootclasspath=/usr/java/jdk1.2/ rt.jar, and the code will compile according to 1.2 rules, compile to 1.2 classfiles, and be compiled against 1.2 runtime libraries. It will thus run on 1.2 JREs! That is a

RE: log4j 1.3 minimum JDK (was Re: [VOTE] Release log4j 1.2.12rc3)

2005-08-17 Thread Yoav Shapira
Hi, > I wholeheartedly agree. Dropping 1.2 support "just because it's old" is > very silly - there must be some -reason- behind that choice. > > Regards, > Endre True, but the reason doesn't have to be technical. If, for a given log4j release, the marginal cost (in terms of developer time spen

RE: [VOTE] Release log4j 1.2.12rc3 (was log4j 1.3 minimum JDK)

2005-08-17 Thread Mark Womack
> As a potential consumer of the "official" build, there are a lot of > things of the build "machine" that are invisible: the platform, the > compiler, the version of Ant , the JDK, the specific versions of JAF, > JMS, JAXP, JNDI, Javamail, Javadoc, etc. Whether the compiler was > selected by the

RE: [VOTE] Release log4j 1.2.12rc3 (was log4j 1.3 minimum JDK)

2005-08-17 Thread Mark Womack
Something else came up that ate up my evening, so I did not get a chance to look at this like I planned. I will work on this tonight; I want to resolve this and move forward with the release in some fashion. I'll see what I come up with and we can decide and move forward. -Mark > -Original

RE: log4j 1.3 minimum JDK (was Re: [VOTE] Release log4j 1.2.12rc3)

2005-08-17 Thread Mark Womack
Hey Ceki, Do you remember the version of the jdk you used to build v1.2.9? When we had talked about this before I seem to remember you saying JDK 1.3, but maybe that was for the v1.3-alpha builds? -Mark > -Original Message- > From: Ceki Gülcü [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, A

RE: log4j 1.3 minimum JDK (was Re: [VOTE] Release log4j 1.2.12rc3)

2005-08-17 Thread Mark Womack
Endre, Thanks for the info. Curt has already made some changes in this area, so I'll see what I can build upon tonight. -Mark > -Original Message- > From: Endre Stølsvik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 1:45 AM > To: Log4J Developers List; [EMAIL PROTECTED] >

RE: log4j 1.3 minimum JDK (was Re: [VOTE] Release log4j 1.2.12rc3)

2005-08-17 Thread Jacob Kjome
At 11:10 AM 8/17/2005 -0400, you wrote: >Hi, > > >> I wholeheartedly agree. Dropping 1.2 support "just because it's old" is >> very silly - there must be some -reason- behind that choice. >> Did you bother reading both of my responses? Apparently not. >> Regards, >> Endre > >True, but the reaso

1.2.12 Experimental Build

2005-08-17 Thread Mark Womack
I got a chance to play with the 1.2 build tonight. Here is what I did: 1) Isolated the build jdk from the Ant runtime jdk. Basically, I added the following attributes to all of the javac tasks: fork="yes" includeAntRuntime="no" includeJavaRuntime="no" co