Re: [Jython-dev] JDK source version for 2.3 branch?

[Jeff N. <jn...@ac...>]

I didn't step in the last time this came up as I suspected it would be
pretty clear as we got close to real releases which JDK makes sense.

As far as I can tell no enterprise IT shop runs anything older than 1.4.
They are usually the slowest moving beasts around so they are my litmus
test for minimum JDK versions.  It's really hard to find anyone running
1.3 let alone 1.2.  So I would say the minimum version for anything
released today should be 1.4. =20

By the time Jython 2.2 is ready JDK 5 may be the norm, but certainly by
the time Python 2.3 is ready JDK 5 will be.  So I would propose moving
everything up a notch JDK wise (or two in the case of 2.2):
Jython 2.2:  JDK 1.4
Jython 2.3:  JDK 5
Jython 2.4:  JDK 6 (or maybe 7 -- wait till 2.4 dev starts to make a
final decision)

Thanks,
Jeff Norton.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jyt...@li... [mailto:jython-dev-
> bo...@li...] On Behalf Of Frank Wierzbicki
> Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2006 6:51 AM
> To: Charlie Groves
> Cc: jyt...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Jython-dev] JDK source version for 2.3 branch?
>=20
> On 11/26/06, Charlie Groves <cha...@gm...> wrote:
> > Based on
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.jython.devel/2209/focus=3D2210
> > I think 1.4 is in for 2.3.  The reason that pushed Frank over the
edge
> > there didn't pan out, but there are plenty of others like NIO.
> >
> Since this didn't come to a clear conclusion in that earlier thread,
> I'd suggest we do this:
>=20
> Jython 2.2: Java 1.2 (only because this has been the constraint for a
long
> time)
> Jython 2.3: Java 1.4
> Jython 2.4: Java 1.5 (or Java5 as they like to call it)
>=20
> I think we should target Java5 for Jython 2.4 because I would like to
> have some sort of relationship between Jython annotations and Java
> annotations, and that will be much easier if we don't have to worry
> about backwards compatibility.  Besides, by the time we get a 2.4
> production-ready, Java5 or greater should be the default in most
> cases.
>=20
> -Frank
>=20
>
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