From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KIVPb-0003TY-5K for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:16:47 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2BF20E0528; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:16:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02D3EE0528 for ; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:16:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B066641F3 for ; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:16:43 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.599 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.599 required=5.5 tests=[BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id QkOltBYCAGEl for ; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:16:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD82765B4E for ; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:16:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KIVPL-0004Yl-99 for gentoo-java@gentoo.org; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:16:31 +0000 Received: from hsi-kbw-078-042-175-065.hsi3.kabel-badenwuerttemberg.de ([78.42.175.65]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:16:31 +0000 Received: from joerg.schaible by hsi-kbw-078-042-175-065.hsi3.kabel-badenwuerttemberg.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:16:31 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-java@gentoo.org To: gentoo-java@lists.gentoo.org From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg?= Schaible Subject: [gentoo-java] Re: Deprecating JDK 1.4 Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:16:21 +0200 Message-ID: References: <4879D262.1080903@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-java@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: hsi-kbw-078-042-175-065.hsi3.kabel-badenwuerttemberg.de Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: KNode/0.10.9 Sender: news Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 75731724-38ee-437c-b277-d24663a957ee X-Archives-Hash: 7e83ef631b2f4b9a00d52c64d5f4f66c Hi Pawlik, Krzysiek Pawlik wrote: [snip] > What that huge change means to us? As you may (or may not) know Sun is > stopping support for 1.4 soon, so we need to move away from it. Also if= we > focus on modern JDK versions (1.5, 1.6 and soon 1.7) we'll have less wo= rk, > as most major changes occurred between 1.4 and 1.5. Basically whatever = is > 1.5 compatible should work with 1.6 and 1.7. >=20 > Note: that does NOT mean that I'm proposing to remove JDK 1.4 from the > tree - it will stay to people who need it can still use it. On the othe= r > hand few months after Sun EOLs 1.4 we *should* consider dropping 1.4 JD= Ks. Please note, that Sun is still supporting JDK 1.3 for *paying* customers.= It will take years till Sun is completely dropping 1.4: http://www.sun.com/software/javaseforbusiness/support.jsp Therefore I still have even 1.3 ebuilds on my local tree. And I had to download and use the official ant binaries to run it with 1.3. Dropping 1= .4 means also that it is no longer possible to run Maven with its minimum JD= K requirement. In Gentoo all is about choice, but this seem not to apply for Java development. For me it gets unusable. [snip] - J=F6rg --=20 gentoo-java@lists.gentoo.org mailing list