jQuery 1.2 support

jQuery 1.2 support


Reading the jQuery UI 1.6rc5 announcement I see that jQuery 1.2 is now
no longer supported. I want to make a plea to revert that decision. This
is a major change in the middle of a release candidate series that has a
huge impact.
I have been working on a new site for several months, and the javascript
is based on jQuery 1.2, jQuery UI and a number of other modules. With
jQuery UI now suddenly dropping support for jQuery 1.2 am I faced with
the option of either staying at 1.6rc4 and backporting any fixes by
hand, or updating everything to work with jQuery 1.3 which will take
several days (and would probably require forking several third party
modules) which I do not have at this point.
At this point the stability of the jQuery stack with changes like this
is making me thing of using other toolkits for future projects, which
would be a shame.
Is it really really necessary to drop support for jQuery 1.2, which the
whole world is still using?
Regards,
Wichert.