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Hi Pawlik, |
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Krzysiek Pawlik wrote: |
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> What that huge change means to us? As you may (or may not) know Sun is |
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> stopping support for 1.4 soon, so we need to move away from it. Also if we |
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> focus on modern JDK versions (1.5, 1.6 and soon 1.7) we'll have less work, |
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> as most major changes occurred between 1.4 and 1.5. Basically whatever is |
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> 1.5 compatible should work with 1.6 and 1.7. |
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> Note: that does NOT mean that I'm proposing to remove JDK 1.4 from the |
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> tree - it will stay to people who need it can still use it. On the other |
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> hand few months after Sun EOLs 1.4 we *should* consider dropping 1.4 JDKs. |
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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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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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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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- Jörg |
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