Subject Re: [Firebird-Java] Poll about dropping the support for JDKs 1.3.x and 1.4.x
Author Fidel Viegas
On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 2:11 PM, Roman Rokytskyy <roman@...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm currently preparing Jaybird 2.2 beta release (fixing open bugs,
> cleaning up the code) and am thinking about dropping the support for
> JDKs 1.3.x and 1.4.x in HEAD. This would significantly simplify the code
> base and release management.
>
> This means that Jaybird 2.2 will be available for JDK 5.0 and 6.0. For
> those that need support for JDK 1.4.x (I doubt that there is anybody
> using JDK 1.3.x) the Jaybird 2.1 branch will be still there, so bugfixes
> will be possible.
>
> Opinions?
>

I think it would only justify continue supporting JDK 1.3 and JDK 1.4
if there was a large user base, which I don't believe so. So, I think
it seems right to continue supporting the two most recent versions.

Fidel.