+1 Rick Hillegas <[email protected]> writes:
> Please vote on the following proposed policy for supported platforms. > The polls close at 5:00 pm San Francisco time on Friday May 3. > > A) The 10.11 release will support Java 8, 7, and 6. The development > trunk will no longer support Java 5 and CDC. > > B) We expect that maintenance releases on a branch will continue to > support the same Java versions as the initial feature release cut from > that branch. We will document this on the wiki. > > C) Developers will need to keep in mind the porting implications of > using modern JVM features in code which may need to be reworked to run > on older JVMs. Some explanation will be helpful when exploiting a > modern language feature for the first time. > > Adopting this policy would result in the following changes to the > 10.11 trunk: > > I) Removing build support for Java 5 and CDC. > > II) Purging user doc references to Java 5, CDC, and the JDBC 4 DataSources. > > III) Removing the JDBC 4 version of the public api from the published > javadoc. The recently introduced CP2 DataSources would need to migrate > to the JDBC 3 version of the published javadoc. The JDBC 4 versions of > the DataSources would still exist, but they would be vacuous > extensions of their JDBC 3 counterparts. > > D) We do not anticipate that this policy will require any changes to > user code. > > Further discussion of this proposal can be found on the following > email thread: > http://apache-database.10148.n7.nabble.com/Dropping-some-old-platforms-in-10-11-td129559.html
