Re: RFC: Removal of support for JDBC1 drivers.

From: Fernando Nasser <fnasser(at)redhat(dot)com>
To: Dmitry Tkach <dmitry(at)openratings(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-jdbc(at)postgresql(dot)org, Barry Lind <blind(at)xythos(dot)com>, Dave Cramer <Dave(at)micro-automation(dot)net>
Subject: Re: RFC: Removal of support for JDBC1 drivers.
Date: 2003-07-21 16:09:49
Message-ID: 3F1C104D.8050906@redhat.com
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Dmitry Tkach wrote:>>
>>
>> P.S.: I even think support for 1.2 is not necessary. Does anyone know
>> of a place where Java 1.2 is still being used? They must have a Java
>> that old and still have a reasonably recent backend as the driver only
>> support the last two previous versions (will be 7.2+ in the 7.4 release).
>>
>>
> Me again :-)
>
> I am using jdk 1.2 :-)
> Not to actually run the app, but to compile it. The reason is that the
> format in which 1.3 and later reports compilation errors is totally
> insane - I can't even *read* it visually, leave alone trying to
> automatically parse it with something like vim :-)
>

OK, so I guess we will have to keep it at 1.2 for a little more.
But this will only buy you some time as it will eventually have to go.

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Fernando Nasser
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