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Re: Opinion poll time, what SDK should NDT recommend?


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  • From: Simon Leinen <>
  • To: Matt Mathis <>
  • Cc: "Jeff W. Boote" <>, Richard Carlson <>,
  • Subject: Re: Opinion poll time, what SDK should NDT recommend?
  • Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 20:27:00 +0200

Matt Mathis writes:
> With NPAD we have chosen to pin SDK to version 1.3, because it
> currently has the broadest support on the clients. As soon as we
> get a report that the SW is too old to run on some platform, will
> consider moving forward. Since the developers often have newer
> systems this requires forcing the version down on the compile:

> javac -source 1.3 DiagClient.java

This is nice from a backwards compatibility point of view, but
wouldn't that break IPv6 support?
Personally I think this is worth requiring Java 1.4 or better.

> We have zero java version complaints since doing this. The decision
> to move forward will not be made without weighing the pros and cons
> pretty carefully. NPAD and NDT should probably be synchronized....

Why? (Competition is good! :-)
--
Simon.



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