> Am 04.03.2015 um 13:53 schrieb Mike Milinkovich 
> <[email protected]>:
> 
> On 04/03/2015 4:15 PM, Martin Lippert wrote:
>> I am not sure whether this “end of public updates” date reflects what is 
>> going on inside organizations.
>> Oracle still offers support for Java6 until Dec 2015, and extended support 
>> for Dec 2018.
>> 
>> http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html#java-commercial-offerings
> 
> Sure. And I'm also sure if you pay Microsoft enough money you can get support 
> for Windows XP as well. That doesn't make it current.

And we have a solution for this too --> LTS. If someone wants support for 
Eclipse for an older version of Java, then LTS would be the obvious 
recommendation. :)

> I guess we just need to come up with a common definition of what we mean by 
> "current version".

I say: it should be every version receiving security updates public and free 
accessible for the community (committers, contributors and users). As of May 
2015, Java 7 will fall out of that list. But that's just my two cents.

-Gunnar

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