I would favour 1.7 as it's the newest before the major update to Java8. Having a 1.7 in the target environment should not been so restrictive ...
Jan > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Paul King [mailto:pa...@asert.com.au] > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 18. Mai 2017 11:27 > An: Ant Developers List > Betreff: Re: Minimum Java runtime version for proposed upcoming Ivy > release > > The current version of Groovy has 1.6 as the minimum but is our > maintenance stream. > The upcoming next version will require 1.7 and versions with 1.8 as the > minimum are not too far away. > > Ant 1.9.x is still on Java5 but Ant 1.10.x requires Java 8. > > I don't think Gradle uses any Ivy classes any more. > > I'd recommend 1.7 since most active projects will be releasing on > 1.7/1.8 and then after a release, if all goes well activity-wise, I'd > then bump the Ivy version and target 8. > > Cheers, Paul. > > > On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 7:14 PM, Nicolas Lalevée > <nicolas.lale...@hibnet.org > > wrote: > > > I think that upgrading the requirement on the JDK is a good idea, > > because at least us, the maintainers, need at some point to be able > to > > test it if there is an issue with that minimum JDK. > > > > One thing to consider is which JDK is being required in the > > environment Ivy is being used: Ant, Gradle, SBT, Eclipse, Intellij… > We > > shouldn’t require too high. > > > > Nicolas > > > > > Le 18 mai 2017 à 10:58, J Pai <jai.forums2...@gmail.com> a écrit : > > > > > > Now that the plan seems to be to release 2.5.x of Ivy, would it be > > > fine > > if we mandate the _minimum_ Java runtime version to be something > > higher than Java 5 that’s currently supported for 2.4.x > > http://ant.apache.org/ivy/history/latest- > milestone/compatibility.html. > > > > > > Given that Java 6 itself has long been EOLed, I’m not sure whether > > > we > > should consider that as minimum supported version or something > higher. > > Any thoughts? > > > > > > Things will be a bit more easy to develop and test once we finalize > > > on > > the Java version. > > > > > > -Jaikiran > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > - > > > - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For > > > additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional > > commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org
