Also note that there is hardly any Java code; most of it is written in C. On 14 July 2017 at 00:43, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote: > It seems OK to me to update to Java 6 for now and get this to compile under > java 9 for those folks who will try... > > Gary > > On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 9:09 AM, Amey Jadiye <ameyjad...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Thanks for great insights Mark. >> >> On Wed, Jul 12, 2017, 9:28 PM Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote: >> >> > On 12 July 2017 16:33:01 CEST, Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >Are there plans to require 1.7 for Tomcat anytime? Otherwise, it might >> > >be >> > >necessary to make a new major version of daemon eventually for Java 8 >> > >or 9. >> > >> > Tomcat major versions are aligned with Java EE versions which in turn >> have >> > a minimum Java version. >> > >> > Tomcat supports 3 current versions in parallel so we currently have: >> > >> > Tomcat 9 - Java EE 8 - Java 8 >> > Tomcat 8 - Java EE 7 - Java 7 >> > Tomcat 7 - Java EE 6 - Java 6 >> > >> > Tomcat 7 support will continue until at least Java EE 9 is released. That >> > is meant to be next year but there are no firm dates yet and experience >> > suggests the Java EE 9 release date will slip. >> > >> > On that basis I expect Tomcat to need a Daemon that supports Java 6 for >> at >> > least 2 more years. >> > >> > Is there a user requirement driving an increase in the minimum Java >> > version? If not, I suggest we stick with 6 for now. >> > >> >> There is no user requirement , Commons daemon is still keeping minimum >> dependency on java 1.5, we were thinking to move on minimum 1.6, nice to >> hear there won't be any issue with tomcat since it's already on 1.6 >> >> For moving to much higher i.e. java 1.7 I'm sure daemon will take another >> 2-3 year for keeping stability across projects. >> >> Regards, >> Amey >> >> Mark >> > >> > >> > > >> > >Anyways, 1.6 minimum makes sense to me mainly due to Java 9's compiler >> > >not >> > >supporting Java 5 targets anymore. >> > > >> > >On 12 July 2017 at 09:19, Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote: >> > > >> > >> On 11 July 2017 21:02:54 CEST, Amey Jadiye <ameyjad...@gmail.com> >> > >wrote: >> > >> >Hi Daemon Maintainers / All, >> > >> > >> > >> >Daemon seems to be still being maintained on svn, do we have any >> > >plan >> > >> >moving code base to git ? >> > >> >> > >> No preference on this. >> > >> >> > >> >As fact there is low activity in daemon no one thought of bumping >> > >> >version >> > >> >from 1.5 to 1.6 OR we are keeping it purposefully to 1.5 ? >> > >> >shall we bump it minimum to 1.6 ? >> > >> >> > >> 1.6 is OK for Tomcat. Anything higher will cause problems. >> > >> >> > >> Mark >> > >> >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org >> > >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> > >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org >> > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org >> > >> > >>
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