Re: [eclipse-dev] 3.1 and JDK version

[John Arthorne <John_Arthorne@xxxxxxxxxx>]

There is a significant difference between
the JRE that Eclipse is built against, and the JREs that Eclipse users
can build their applications against. Thus while users of Eclipse 3.1 will
be able to build their applications against any JRE from 1.1 to 1.5, we
can only choose one JRE to develop Eclipse itself. Thus, there are necessarily
many JRE versions that we can't implicitly test simply by developing Eclipse.
Moving to 1.5 would require all users of Eclipse-based products to also
move to a 1.5 JRE, which is a strong burden on end-users just to make our
lives easier for testing 1.5-specific functionality.

Steven Buroff <sburoff@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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09/09/2004 11:13 AM

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Subject	[eclipse-dev] 3.1 and JDK version

The 3.1 project plan (http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/development/eclipse_project_plan_3_1.html)
says: "The
3.1 release of the Eclipse Project is written and compiled against version
1.4 of the Java 2 Platform APIs, and targeted to run on version 1.4 of
the Java 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition.". How can you develop
and support Java 1.5 if you are using 1.4 for development
and testing (I assume you test on the targeted system)?
 
Steve Buroff