Hi all it looks as if we need to make a bunch of changes in order to support Java9. Right now we can't even bootstrap ant on Java9 without changes since javac doesn't support -target 1.5 anymore.
I think it's time to drop support for Java5 and - as we've done in the past - bump the second part of Ant's version number to reflect the change. We may want to release a final 1.9.7 version, but that would be a different thread. I'm not sure whether moving to Java6 is worth the effort since it has been EOLed as well, even Java7 is no longer officially supported by Oracle, but personally I wouldn't want to require Java8 right now. So do we want to move on and if so, what should become our new baseline? Stefan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org
