On 6/21/17 6:53 AM, Me wrote:
Hi Rick,
I agree - especially given the small number active contributors (I am lurking,
not active). Perhaps check/announce on the user list?
Myrna
On Jun 20, 2017, at 6:37 PM, Rick Hillegas <[email protected]> wrote:
My experience working on DERBY-6856 suggests that it will be very difficult to
support building Derby with both JDK 9 and earlier versions of the JDK. In
previous releases, we maintained some very complicated machinery for using old
JDKs in order to build Derby jars which could run on both old and modern Java
versions. It is hard to sustain that complexity given our small number of
active contributors.
I propose that 10.14.1
(https://wiki.apache.org/db-derby/DerbyTenFourteenOneRelease) be the last
release which runs on Java 8. The 10.15.1 release would be compiled into Java 9
byte code and only run on that platform and later versions of Java. We would
announce this change in the 10.14.1 release notes.
What are your thoughts? If the community seems willing, I will call a vote to
approve this change.
Thanks,
-Rick
Thanks, Myrna. That's a great idea.
Cheers,
-Rick
