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Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 21:35:48 -0800
From: Barry Lind <blind@xythos.com>
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To: Renaud Waldura <renaud@waldura.com>
Cc: pgsql-jdbc@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Requiring Ant 1.5 for build breaks JDK 1.1 compatibility
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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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