[Laszlo-dev] considering dropping support for java 1.4 - opinions?

[Henry Minsky]

My debian linux box is running Java 1.4, it was a little bit of trouble to
find a package to install it for some reason. Anyone installed Java 1.5 onto
a vanilla
Debian system?

On 1/22/07, Benjamin Shine <ben at laszlosystems.com> wrote:
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> We're considering dropping support for java 1.4. Right now we
> recommend java 1.5, but we haven't done anything to the servlet and
> compiler that requires java 1.5. (There is some use of java 1.5 in
> the documentation tools and performance analysis tools.) This would
> be just for OL4 and later, not for the 3.x work.
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> Is anyone stuck in a java 1.4 environment who would want to be able
> to deploy OL4 and future releases? Would anyone mind if we dropped
> support for java 1.4? Does anyone even know of real deployments in
> the world which could not update to java 1.5?
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> (I have been experimenting with java 1.6 and so far it seems to work,
> but it will be a while before we can really call it "supported.")
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> -ben
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-- 
Henry Minsky
Software Architect
hminsky at laszlosystems.com
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