Removal of Java 1.1 and 1.2 support in the ports tree

[Mark Evenson]

Greg Lewis wrote:
> G'day Mark,
> 
> On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 11:17:19AM +0200, Mark Evenson wrote:
> 
> Unless someone else comes forward saying they are using jdk11 today, I
> don't see a statement of "this was useful for me 4 years ago" as being a
> reason to keep an ancient version of Java around today :).

Ouch.  Yeah, it's reaching on my part:  I just wanted to see if anyone 
else had maybe put this to use.

[...]
> 
> Basically, I think the removal of these ports will be going ahead unless
> someone comes up with a Really Good [TM] reason not to.  They're basically
> just a maintenance burden at the moment.
 >
> That being said, we're not removing the distribution files for jdk11, so
> if someone desperately needs to use an 8 year old JDK they can still
> download the binary, install compat3x and run it (assuming it does).

Keeping the binary distribution kicking around would be more than enough 
for my (admittedly remotely possible) future needs.  And I totally. 
understand wanting to remove administrative burden.

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