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Jörg Schaible wrote: |
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> Please note, that Sun is still supporting JDK 1.3 for *paying* customers. It |
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> will take years till Sun is completely dropping 1.4: |
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> http://www.sun.com/software/javaseforbusiness/support.jsp |
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Yes, but the free Java world goes forward, plethora of projects use 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. Dropping 1.4 |
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> means also that it is no longer possible to run Maven with its minimum JDK |
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> requirement. |
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Yes, but VM which is running maven is not the same as VM for which the code is |
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generated (note -source and -target options of javac). |
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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 >=1.5, |
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*but*: if you install JDK 1.4 (or any other version) you can still use 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 all things |
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depending on them also need to be >= 1.5. For example: new hessian requires >= |
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1.5, which means that mx4j needs also to be switched to 1.5, which means we have |
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to switch anything depending on mx4j, and so on. |
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Krzysiek Pawlik <nelchael at gentoo.org> key id: 0xBC555551 |
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desktop-misc, java, apache, ppc, vim, kernel, python... |
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