I don't mind which version we go with, but I would like to see the main Ant home page be clear about which Ant version to use, based on installed Java version.
Could we have a compatibility matrix or something equivalent, on the main page? Something that takes into account the TL;DR crowd :) Andre > On 22 Mar, 2016, at 13:44, Jan Matèrne (jhm) <apa...@materne.de> wrote: > > +1 for Java8. > For old java versions we have the 1.9-branch. > > Jan > >> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- >> Von: Roger and Beth Whitcomb [mailto:rogerandb...@rbwhitcomb.com] >> Gesendet: Dienstag, 22. März 2016 18:14 >> An: dev@ant.apache.org >> Betreff: Re: [VOTE] Adopt Java8 as Baseline for 1.10 on master Branch >> >> As a heavy Ant user, faced with my own "minimum supported Java version" >> headaches, >> >> I'm +1 on this. >> >> ~Roger Whitcomb >> >> On 3/22/16 5:11 AM, Stefan Bodewig wrote: >>> Hi all >>> >>> after the recent discussion, I'd like to propose the following: >>> >>> * create a branch 1.9.x that we use for Java5 compatible maintenance >>> releases - with Jenkins Matrix Builds, of course. >>> >>> * change the version number of the master branch to 1.10.0alpha >>> (-SNAPSHOT, whatever) and make Java8 the new baseline for that - >> with >>> Gump and Jenkins Matrix Builds for Java8 (and 9 once it becomes >>> available). >>> >>> Please cast your votes, will be open for about three days. >>> >>> Cheers >>> >>> Stefan >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional >>> commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional >> commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org
