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On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 22:39 +0000, Peter B. West wrote: |
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> Joshua Nichols wrote: |
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> >>So who wants to run a 1.4 JDK? And what, exactly, prevents anything |
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> >>from being compiled under 1.5? The only thing I can think of is the |
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> >>user of the newly reserved word 'enum'. Big deal. How long has 1.5 |
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> >>been around now? |
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> > Have you actually tried using a 1.5 JDK to emerge your system? I'm |
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> > guessing not, because xerces, xalan, and dom4j won't compile with 1.5, |
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> > and they are pretty critical XML libraries that lots of things use. |
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> See my response to the "ant won't compile" message. Same story, at |
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> least partially. |
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> Download sources for Xerces-J. Read README, which tells me I need the |
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> tools. Download the tools. Extract "in the same directory." What does |
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> that mean? Read build.sh. Ah, tools is in the Xerces directory. Do that. |
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> Run sh build.sh jars. Result: |
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> BUILD SUCCESSFUL |
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> Total time: 13 seconds |
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> Do I really have to do this with Xalan as well? Java 5 ships with |
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> xerces as its parser, in place of crimson. That's in the incompatibility |
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> notes. It ships with xalan, and defaults to using xsltc. Also in the |
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> incompatibility notes. (And xalan 2.7.0 has one reported bug that I |
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> know of that causes problems with netbeans 5.0). |
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> The simple fact is that I can pick up any of the binaries and they will |
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> almost certainly run without problems. There are a handful of obscure |
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> binary-level incompatibilities, but the only problem I have encountered |
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> is the netbeans bug I mentioned; not an incompatibility. |
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> Peter |
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I think you're missing one of the main points here... he did NOT say |
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that they would not compile at all -- he said they would not compile on |
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the current Gentoo ebuild base (e.g., "... using a 1.5 JDK to emerge |
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your system"). |
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Then, did you see the rest of his message, the part talking about the |
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1.5 overlay that is being worked on? The main point of the overlay is |
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to get these "incompatibilities" resolved. Then the "fixed" ebuilds |
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from the overlay can become mainstream in Portage. |
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This stuff takes time, especially when system-level stability issues |
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stand in the balance. |
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Greg |
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