On 27/02/2019 10:18, Andrew Leonard wrote:
Hi,
Does anyone know if this JEP will be modified to cater for the shorter
release cycles and LTS releases?
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8046172
The original Impact statement stated: "but even with this new policy
source code 10 or more years old should still be able to be compiled"
however now, for example with JDK12 this policy will only support 1+3 =
12, 11, 10, 9, which means LTS JDK8 would not be recognised?
"1+3" is essentially only 18 months now!
JDK 12 dropped support for compiling to --release 6, see JDK-8028563
[1]. You shouldn't have any issue compiling to --release 8.
The policy documented in JEP 182 pre-dates the more rapid cadence, the
policy hasn't been updated yet. The topic has come up on jdk-dev,
discuss, and other places. Joe Darcy's recent mail to jdk-dev [2] might
be useful.
-Alan
[1] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8028563
[2]
https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-dev/2019-February/002628.html
