Re: jdk 1.3 dependencies

[Thierry Kormann <Th...@sophia.inria.fr>]

> I found and removed a couple of dependencies during the hackathon,
> but the ones I found today are less trivial to remove:
> 
>     *   constructor JMenuItem(Action) [ since 1.3 ]

This one is from Vincent's viewer. As we now have Pan and Zoom in the new 
viewer, I think we can remove it now.

>     *   method java.awt.image.ColorModel.getTransferType()
>       [javadoc does not indicate that this is a new method, but it is].

This question is for Thomas, Vincent or Dean :)

> If we absolutely must have 1.3, so be it, but my own preference is to 
> hold off on such dependencies as long as we can.

I agree. Use jdk1.3 *only* when we have no choice.

Thierry.




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