Subject: Re: Requiring Ant 1.5 for build breaks JDK 1.1 compatibility
From: Daniel Serodio <daniel@checkforte.com.br>
To: PostgreSQL JDBC List <pgsql-jdbc@postgresql.org>
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What is the difference in the FreeBSD port? Ant is pure Java! If the
Java code is the same, how can it require a different JDK?

On Sat, 2003-01-25 at 00:12, Renaud Waldura wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I built using the FreeBSD port of the PostgreSQL JDBC driver, which requires
> Ant 1.5.
> The FreeBSD port of Ant 1.5 requires JDK 1.2+, which had me believe Ant 1.5
> couldn't run on JDK 1.1.
> 
> >From your message I see it isn't the case. Thanks!
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Barry Lind" <blind@xythos.com>
> To: "Renaud Waldura" <renaud@waldura.com>
> Cc: <pgsql-jdbc@postgresql.org>
> Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 9:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [JDBC] Requiring Ant 1.5 for build breaks JDK 1.1 compatibility
> 
> 
> > Renaud,
> >
> > What sort of problems are you having building with ant 1.5 and jdk 1.1?
> >   I don't have any problems building with ant 1.6 and jdk1.1.  Also,
> > have you tried the prebuilt jar files on jdbc.postgresql.org?
> >
> > --Barry
> >
> > Renaud Waldura wrote:
> > > Dear PostgreSQL JDBC driver developers,
> > >
> > > I was pleased to find that your JDBC driver for PostgreSQL only requires
> JDK
> > > 1.1 for minimal functionality. Congratulations and thank you for doing
> so.
> > >
> > > Unfortunately building the driver requires Ant 1.5, which itself
> requires
> > > JDK 1.2. This dependency breaks the ability to compile and use the
> driver on
> > > a JDK 1.1 platform such as mine.
> > >
> > > I tried to build the driver with Ant 1.4, which only requires JDK 1.1,
> and
> > > it worked in fact just fine, apart from some minor problems for which I
> > > include a patch. It appears to me the Ant 1.5 (thus JDK 1.2) dependency
> is a
> > > rather weak one, and only present for convenience reasons.
> > >
> > > As this breaks JDK 1.1 compatibility, which the driver itself supports,
> I
> > > wish you would reconsider, and maybe altogether drop, this dependency.
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > > The included patch allowed me to cleanly build and compile version 7.3.1
> of
> > > the JDBC driver on FreeBSD 4.2.
> > >
> > > --Renaud
> > >
> > >
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Daniel Serodio <daniel@checkforte.com.br>
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