On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 12:10 PM, Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote: > On 29/03/17 16:56, Coty Sutherland wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I see a good bit of discussion regarding testing trunk with java 9, >> are we planning to test 8.5 with java 9 also? I've executed the unit >> tests for both and see that there are quite a few more failures on 8.5 >> than there are for trunk, so it seems that we've been fixing trunk but >> not 8.5. > > Correct. > > My thinking was that, while Java 9 was still only 'early access' and > somewhat of a moving target, make the fixes in Tomcat 9 and back-port > them to 8.5.x and 7.0.x (assuming 8.0.x is EOL by then) once Java 9 is > released. My primary concern is I don't want to have to make breaking > changes in 8.5.x and friends as Java 9 evolves. That is unlikely but not > impossible.
That's what I was hoping for, thanks for confirming. > Mark > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org
