So far the majority seems to be to require a minimum of Java 7. If there are no concerns or objections to this by the end of this week, then on Monday, I’ll raise a PR to mandate Java 7 for Ivy.
-Jaikiran On 18-May-2017, at 11:48 PM, Gintautas Grigelionis <g.grigelio...@gmail.com> wrote: That's fine, IvyDE is already at Java 7/Eclipse 3.7.1; then IvyDE baseline should be bumped to Java 8/Eclipse 4.4 with the next Ivy release. Hopefully updatesite resolver could be used then. 2017-05-18 17:12 GMT+02:00 Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com>: > Using 1.7 for the next release and then 1.8 for the following release makes > sense to me. > > On 18 May 2017 at 05:58, J Pai <jai.forums2...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> +1 >> >> -Jaikiran >> On 18-May-2017, at 4:26 PM, Jan Matèrne (jhm) <apa...@materne.de> wrote: >> >> I would favour 1.7 as it's the newest before the major update to Java8. >> Having a 1.7 in the target environment should not been so restrictive ... >> >> Jan >> >>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- >>> Von: Paul King [mailto:pa...@asert.com.au] >>> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 18. Mai 2017 11:27 >>> An: Ant Developers List >>> Betreff: Re: Minimum Java runtime version for proposed upcoming Ivy >>> release >>> >>> The current version of Groovy has 1.6 as the minimum but is our >>> maintenance stream. >>> The upcoming next version will require 1.7 and versions with 1.8 as the >>> minimum are not too far away. >>> >>> Ant 1.9.x is still on Java5 but Ant 1.10.x requires Java 8. >>> >>> I don't think Gradle uses any Ivy classes any more. >>> >>> I'd recommend 1.7 since most active projects will be releasing on >>> 1.7/1.8 and then after a release, if all goes well activity-wise, I'd >>> then bump the Ivy version and target 8. >>> >>> Cheers, Paul. >>> >>> >>> On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 7:14 PM, Nicolas Lalevée >>> <nicolas.lale...@hibnet.org >>>> wrote: >>> >>>> I think that upgrading the requirement on the JDK is a good idea, >>>> because at least us, the maintainers, need at some point to be able >>> to >>>> test it if there is an issue with that minimum JDK. >>>> >>>> One thing to consider is which JDK is being required in the >>>> environment Ivy is being used: Ant, Gradle, SBT, Eclipse, Intellij… >>> We >>>> shouldn’t require too high. >>>> >>>> Nicolas >>>> >>>>> Le 18 mai 2017 à 10:58, J Pai <jai.forums2...@gmail.com> a écrit : >>>>> >>>>> Now that the plan seems to be to release 2.5.x of Ivy, would it be >>>>> fine >>>> if we mandate the _minimum_ Java runtime version to be something >>>> higher than Java 5 that’s currently supported for 2.4.x >>>> http://ant.apache.org/ivy/history/latest- >>> milestone/compatibility.html. >>>>> >>>>> Given that Java 6 itself has long been EOLed, I’m not sure whether >>>>> we >>>> should consider that as minimum supported version or something >>> higher. >>>> Any thoughts? >>>>> >>>>> Things will be a bit more easy to develop and test once we finalize >>>>> on >>>> the Java version. >>>>> >>>>> -Jaikiran >>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> - >>>>> - 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 >> >> > > > -- > Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org
