Re: Deprecating JDK 1.4

Petteri Räty <[email protected]> Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:16:20 +0300
Newsgroups gmane.linux.gentoo.java
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Serkan Kaba wrote:
> Petteri Räty yazm1_:
>> Krzysiek Pawlik kirjoitti:
>>>> Yeah just check for reverse deps.
>>> Sure - that's the important (and time consuming) part.
>>>
>> Just use the proper tools and it's not that time consuming.
> 
>> Regards,
>> Petteri
> 
> We now have it EOLed and a security bug[1] is reported. What's the
> status here?
> 
> 1: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=263810

I think the easiest approach is to modify java-config to support VMs
marked as being build only. Then in time fix everything that only builds
with 1.4 and nuke 1.4 from the tree.

Regards,
Petteri
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