Hi Rick, I agree - especially given the small number active contributors (I am lurking, not active). Perhaps check/announce on the user list?
Myrna > On Jun 20, 2017, at 6:37 PM, Rick Hillegas <rick.hille...@gmail.com> wrote: > > My experience working on DERBY-6856 suggests that it will be very difficult > to support building Derby with both JDK 9 and earlier versions of the JDK. In > previous releases, we maintained some very complicated machinery for using > old JDKs in order to build Derby jars which could run on both old and modern > Java versions. It is hard to sustain that complexity given our small number > of active contributors. > > I propose that 10.14.1 > (https://wiki.apache.org/db-derby/DerbyTenFourteenOneRelease) be the last > release which runs on Java 8. The 10.15.1 release would be compiled into Java > 9 byte code and only run on that platform and later versions of Java. We > would announce this change in the 10.14.1 release notes. > > What are your thoughts? If the community seems willing, I will call a vote to > approve this change. > > Thanks, > -Rick >
