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Re: Requiring JDK 1.4 (Was Re: svn commit: r26872 - trunk/subversion/bindings/javahl/src/org/tigris/subversion/javahl)

From: Blair Zajac <blair_at_orcaware.com>
Date: 2007-10-01 22:15:37 CEST

Daniel Rall wrote:
> On Mon, 01 Oct 2007, Mark Phippard wrote:
>
>> On 10/1/07, Daniel Rall <dlr@collab.net> wrote:
>>>>>>> What is the oldest version of Java we support?
>>>>>> subversion/bindings/javahl/README says 1.3.
>>>>> How about we move to Java 1.4 for svn 1.5. Java 1.3.x has reached
>>>>> end-of-life (except for Solaris 8 users, which have till October 2009; I
>>>>> wouldn't want to support 1.4 for 2 more years).
>>>> s/support 1.4/support 1.3/.
>>> I'd be +1 with that, but can't spend time on it ATM. Blair, if you
>>> want to spearhead that effort, by all means... :)
>> I thought we were supporting 1.2 ? I am fine with moving to 1.4. I
>> believe the build system enforces the version now in the compiler
>> settings, so that is probably all that needs to change.
>
> JAVAC_FLAGS = -g -target 1.2 -source 1.3
>
> Looks like we're currently source-compatible with 1.3, but are
> byte-compiling for 1.2 JVM.

So we would switch both to 1.4? Any reason to keep byte-compatible with 1.2 or 1.3?

Blair

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