Den 02.09.14 15:32, skrev Rick Hillegas: > Please vote on the following proposed policy for supported platforms. > The polls close at 5:00 pm San Francisco time on Monday September 15. > > A) The 10.12 release notes will tell users that 10.12 is the last > release which supports Java 6. > > B) The 10.13 release will support Java 9, 8, and 7 as well as Java 8 > compact profile 2. After releasing 10.12, the development trunk will > no longer support Java 6. > > C) 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. > > D) 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 > 10.13 trunk: > > I) Removing build support for Java 6. > > II) Purging user doc references to Java 6. > > 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/Java-6-vs-7-td141757.html >
+1 While there may be some drawbacks for a limited number of users, and potentially some extra work for the developers, the upsides seem worth the effort to me. -- Kristian
