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 > > > > -- > | Rupert Westenthaler [email protected] > | Bodenlehenstraße 11 ++43-699-11108907 > | A-5500 Bischofshofen >
