Java 1.3

[Paul Snively]

on 6/1/00 3:49 PM, Mark S. Miller at markm@caplet.com wrote:

> The open question:
> should we drop support for Java 1.1.x as well?  If we drop it, several
> headaches go away...
> ...Speak up for 1.1.x now or forever use >= 1.3.

Unfortunately, from my vantage point, dropping 1.1.x support is flat out of
the question, because you then lose MacOS < X as a platform, and since
that's my platform :-) you'd lose me (not that I feel like I'm contributing
just yet, but having just gotten my iMac DV Special Edition a couple of
months ago, vs. my 9-year-old Mac IIfx, I'm trying to cut myself some slack,
and I DID just start porting the Ant build system to MRJ precisely so that I
could recast the E build process in terms of Ant so that I could FINALLY
build E on the Mac).

Perhaps I should be more noisy about such efforts.

In any event, please please please please PLEASE don't drop Java 1.1.

> Cheers,
> --MarkM
> 
> 

Best regards (and welcome back, and please come back to the discussion at
<http://wmf.editthispage.com>)!

Paul