Ok, I think this is a fair reasonable concern :-)


2013/3/19 Rupert Westenthaler <[email protected]>

> Hi
>
> Apache Stanbol is compatible to Java 6 something that would no longer
> be possible if Clerezza would require Java 7. I would prefer to stay
> with Java 6 unless their is a really important reason (e.g. if someone
> would like to use things like ForkJoinPool [1]).
>
> Tommasos comment of having two branches would also solve my issue, but
> it would also introduce a lot of overhead for managing both version.
>
> Apple still provides updates to Java 6 they only deactivated Browser
> Applets for Java 6. In fact I am still using Java 6 as development
> version.
>
> best
> Rupert
>
> [1]
> http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/concurrent/ForkJoinPool.html
>
> On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Reto Bachmann-Gmür <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > With my latest commit I used java.nio.file.Path and I didn't notice this
> > was only introduced with Java 7. Jenkin who uses java 6 no failed because
> > of this.
> >
> > I'm wonderingif we still want to be compatible with java 6. I think usage
> > of java 6 should be at least discouraged as Oracle stopped delivering
> even
> > security updates for java 6 since Febraury 2013. There is still redhat
> > offering support for openjdk 6:
> > http://www.infoq.com/news/2013/03/red-hat-openJDK
> >
> > WDYT?
> >
> > Reto
>
>
>
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