Re: [Babeldoc-devel] Babeldoc RC4 and JDK1.3 compatibility

[bruce <br...@mc...>]

On Tuesday 01 April 2003 09:33 am, ek...@ba... wrote:
> <<
> I noticed RC4 version has bean released. As I could see the main reason
> for
> releasing was JDK1.3 compatiblity.
> However if scanner code is included in build I am afraid there is still
> JDK1.4 code since JDK1.3 does not have regex support.
> If you don't need scanners then you can safely delete
> babeldoc-scanner.jar
> from lib folder. If JDK1.3 compatibility is necessery for scanners then
> we
> should use some of two Jakarta  projects that deal with regular
> expressions
> instead of JDK1.4 regex package..
>
>
> As of now, I do not plan on using scanners.  However, if we are trying
> to gain JDK 1.3 compliance (are we?? / should we??), then we may want to
> move away from the regex package.

Erik, 

I definitely think that we should not try and support 1.3.  I do think that 
the core should be as free from dependencies as possible including 
dependencies on a particular jdk.

regards,
Bruce.

PS.  How is your CVS/SSH support going?

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