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Krzysiek Pawlik kirjoitti: |
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> Jörg Schaible wrote: |
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>> Please note, that Sun is still supporting JDK 1.3 for *paying* |
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>> customers. It |
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>> will take years till Sun is completely dropping 1.4: |
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>> |
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>> http://www.sun.com/software/javaseforbusiness/support.jsp |
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> |
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> Yes, but the free Java world goes forward, plethora of projects use |
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> generics - |
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> and they require >= 1.5 (or any other feature of JDK 1.5). |
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>> Therefore I still have even 1.3 ebuilds on my local tree. And I had to |
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>> download and use the official ant binaries to run it with 1.3. |
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>> Dropping 1.4 |
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>> means also that it is no longer possible to run Maven with its minimum |
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>> JDK |
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>> requirement. |
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> |
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> Yes, but VM which is running maven is not the same as VM for which the |
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> code is |
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> generated (note -source and -target options of javac). |
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> |
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>> In Gentoo all is about choice, but this seem not to apply for Java |
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>> development. For me it gets unusable. |
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> You're missing the point: the official tree (gentoo-x86) will require |
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> >=1.5, |
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> *but*: if you install JDK 1.4 (or any other version) you can still use |
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> it for |
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> your own software (including maven, ant and so on). |
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> Also like I said - more and more things require 1.5, which means that |
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> all things |
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> depending on them also need to be >= 1.5. For example: new hessian |
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> requires >= |
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> 1.5, which means that mx4j needs also to be switched to 1.5, which means |
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> we have |
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> to switch anything depending on mx4j, and so on. |
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> |
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I don't think we will be removing 1.4 JDKs from the main tree before Sun |
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EOLs them. Even after that I think we will be keeping them around in the |
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Java overlay. The point here is that we will end our support for using |
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1.4 as the system VM and build VM when Sun EOLs it. |
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Regards, |
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Petteri |