On 2016-03-06, Michael Clarke wrote: > I personally don't think we should constrain ourselves to supporting End of > Life'd versions of Java: anyone wanting to use an older version of Java can > download an older version of Ant. That being said, Ant doesn't introduce > major new features particularly often so we may not be losing too much by > not using the latest Java APIs available to us.
Agreed on both points, I may even be seeing fewer new features introduced than you do. :-) > My preference would be to move our mainline development to compile against > the current versions of Java with public support - so currently Java 1.8 > and 1.9 - with an increment in minor version number of Ant to reflect this > change that may break some peoples' environments. I'd translate that to Ant 1.0 and Java8 as a baseline. > I also think we should consider creating a "Long Term Support" style > branch for the previous version where we back-port fixes where > possible - i.e. where any changed dependencies don't require a new > version of Java, and the changed code hasn't used a new Java API and > isn't specifically introducing new features. While this technically isn't all too difficult I somewhat doubt we'll find the time to do that. But we can certainly try. I'll start a formal vote thread soon. Stefan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org
