Hi all I think we should inform our developers and users a couple of months in advance before moving to Java 7. We can announce this now that we plan to move to Java 7 for example in the release after the next (or something similar). Well, we still haven't got a plan for the next releases :-(
my 2 cts Hasan On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Reto Bachmann-Gmür <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Bertrand Delacretaz < > [email protected] > > wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Rupert Westenthaler > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > ...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... > > > > +1, IMO it's a bit early to abandon Java 6 and I don't see compelling > > reasons. > > > > I didn't find the reasons for Stanbol to want to remain java 6 compatible. > Java 7 has been there for almost two years and Java 8 will soon be > released. > > There isn't just the ForkJoinPool but several improvement. An example is > the file stuff where we could drop the constant polling for changes in the > BundleDevTool. > > The change isn't urgent for me. Just keeping it java 6 compatible is an > additional effort and I'm not sure what justifies this. > > Cheers, > Reto >
