On Tue, Feb 26, 2013, at 02:34 PM, Noa Resare wrote: > java 6 may be end-of-line'd by Oracle, but the OpenJDK is shipping as > part > of the enterprise distributions and as such will be supported in i.e. > Debian Wheezy for at least years into the future.
If the upstream project is no longer supporting OpenJDK 6, I'm wondering about the time it will take to address any new security issues, etc. Just digging into this a little, I see this: http://packages.qa.debian.org/o/openjdk-6.html Top todo item: "There are 122 open security issues, please fix them." (OpenJDK 7 shows 16 open issues.) > I'm not talking about not supporting java 7, the java ecosystem has > traditionally been very good at supporting code targeting current_version > - > 1, but I propose we avoid using language features and quirks that break > java 6 compatibility. That seems reasonable, assuming there's nothing in Java 7 we need/want. Best, jzb -- Joe Brockmeier j...@zonker.net Twitter: @jzb http://www.dissociatedpress.net/
