Ant and JDK 1.1 only?

[Edwin Guenthner <ed...@web.de>]

Hi there,

I have used Ant with JDK 1.3 for quite a long time; but now we
have a project that will be JDK 1.1 only. 

I am wondering if anybody has tried this before ...
- is it doable?
- is it recommended?
- is it impossible?

regards,
eg



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Re: Ant and JDK 1.1 only?

[Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org>]

On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Edwin Guenthner <ed...@web.de> wrote:

> - is it doable?

yes.  I bootstrap using 1.1 from time to time to make sure we haven't
introduced any 1.2 dependencies.  There may be some optional tasks
that don't work on JDK 1.1.

> - is it recommended?

It will be a lot slower than 1.3.

Maybe you should develop with JDK 1.3 and jikes instead (point jikes
to classes.zip and set includejavaruntime to false in <javac>).

To make sure everything is OK, you could switch to JDK 1.1 and do a
clean build every now and then - your release builds should probably
better be done that way.

Stefan

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