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From: Barry Lind <blind@xythos.com>
To: Renaud Waldura <renaud@waldura.com>
Cc: pgsql-jdbc@postgresql.org
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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