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On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 23:37, Alexey Zelkin wrote:
> hi,

<snip>

> Sun is using method "previous release can be used for bootstraping".  It means
> what jdk 1.3.1 can be used to bootstrap 1.4.0, 1.4.0 -> 1.4.1, 1.4.1 ->
> 1.4.2 and 1.4.2 -> 1.5.0.  And since we do not have all pre-1.4.2 jdks
> in tree, we can't use 1.3.1 to bootstrap 1.4.2.

I wouldn't mind having more options of JDKs. JBuilder 8 runs on 1.4.0
and fails in odd ways on 1.4.2.

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Antony T Curtis, BSc.                   UNIX, Linux, *BSD, Networking
antony.t.curtis@ntlworld.com            C++, J2EE, Perl, MySQL, Apache
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