Re: [VOTE] Drop JSP 1.2 support in 2.3.24

All right, JSP 1.2 support was removed then, with lazy voting. There
was no objection, and two +1-s outside of mine. (With this, the build
no longer depends on any artifacts hosted on freemarker.org's Ivy
repository.)


Tuesday, September 15, 2015, 10:21:37 PM, Woonsan Ko wrote:

> +1
>
> Woonsan
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 2:10 PM, Daniel Dekany <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Yet another voting with lazy consensus... silence gives assent. 72
>> hours left.
>>
>> I think we have to drop JSP 1.2 support in 2.3.24 because of legal
>> reasons. The jps-api 1.2 artifact can't be found in the Maven Central
>> Repo, and it can't be upload for legal reasons. This means that as far
>> as FreeMarker 2.3.x depends on it, it can't be built without
>> developers getting that jar themselves and putting it into the Ivy
>> cache or something. (It has worked so far because freemarker.org has
>> hosted it in its own Ivy repo, but doing such legally gray things
>> won't go anymore as we move the site to the ASF's infrastructure.)
>>
>> JSP 1.2 was part of J2EE 1.3 (September 24, 2001), and was replaced by
>> JSP 2.0 in J2EE 1.4 (November 11, 2003). So hopefully not many users
>> will be hurt.
>>
>> --
>> Thanks,
>>  Daniel Dekany
>>
>

-- 
Thanks,
 Daniel Dekany


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