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Subject: Re: Removal of Java 1.1 and 1.2 support in the ports tree
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William Cai wrote:
> Mark,
> Sorry for the disturbing, but I'm really curious why we need to maintain a feature dropped in post JDK 1.1 versions. If possible, could 
you please show us more details? :-)

I was not really arguing that FreeBSD shouldn't obsolete java/jdk[12], 
especially the dependencies between ports.  I was just trying to see if 
other people might want the java/jdk11 port to generate/test code that 
works on old jdk-1.1 systems (like the Microsoft VM, possibly some JME 
environments).


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