Robert, I think it's reasonable at this point to move to Java 1.7. I'd really prefer to use new features and given Java 1.7 is about to be EOL'd I don't think it's very practical staying on Java 1.6.
On Mar 5, 2015, at 8:09 AM, Stephen Connolly <stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com> wrote: > We never got a final official policy. > > I believe the consensus was at least: > > * all Java versions currently supported by Oracle and one back on a Major > version bump. > > I think we should go with all Java versions currently supported by Oracle > on a Minor version bump... but there was some grumbling from Chris and I > didn't want to fracture the community at the time. > > I think with Oracle being more strict it is reasonable that we start moving > on up. > > Thus if we are to have a policy I would say that every minor version > release is supposed to work with any version line of Java that was under > public free support by Oracle at the time of the first release in our minor > version line. > > Or in other words, 3.3.x would be JDK7 & JDK8 (it may work with JDK9 but we > cannot know until that is released) > > Moving our base JDK up will allow us to compile with JDK7 bytecode which > will improve startup performance according to the rumours I have heard. > > On 5 March 2015 at 15:53, Jason van Zyl <ja...@takari.io> wrote: > >> Stephen, as the keeper of long discussions we've had about JDK versions >> what did we actually decide a while back? >> >> On Mar 5, 2015, at 7:43 AM, Stephen Connolly < >> stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> +1 >>> >>> On 5 March 2015 at 12:19, Igor Fedorenko <i...@ifedorenko.com> wrote: >>> >>>> With maven core version change to 3.3.0 on master, any objections I >>>> change compile source/target to java 7? >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Regards, >>>> Igor >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org >>>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org >>>> >>>> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Jason >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------- >> Jason van Zyl >> Founder, Takari and Apache Maven >> http://twitter.com/jvanzyl >> http://twitter.com/takari_io >> --------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Selfish deeds are the shortest path to self destruction. >> >> -- The Seven Samuari, Akira Kurosawa >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org >> >> Thanks, Jason ---------------------------------------------------------- Jason van Zyl Founder, Takari and Apache Maven http://twitter.com/jvanzyl http://twitter.com/takari_io --------------------------------------------------------- There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about. -- John von Neumann --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org
