I’m more concerned about the 4-5 year time frame given. That includes at least two more LTS Java releases.
On Sat, Jun 16, 2018 at 15:34, Mark Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: > On 16/06/18 21:14, Matt Sicker wrote: > > On 16 June 2018 at 14:11, Mark Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> What is driving the desire to move to Java 8? > >> > > > > What's driving the desire to maintain support for a seven year old > release > > of Java which is not supported without paying large sums of money to > > Oracle? > > As I said, Tomcat 8 which has at least another 4 to 5 years of life in > it, depends on DBCP 2 and has a specification mandated requirement to > maintain compatibility with Java 7. > > There are ways the Tomcat community could work around this. Because Java > 7 is EOL does not - on its own - strike me as a sufficiently good reason > to create hassle for another ASF community. > > If there are new features in Java 8 we want to take advantage of or an > update to the JDBC API that we want to support then fair enough. Those > are good reasons but I'd like to see them explicitly articulated. > > Mark > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > -- Matt Sicker <[email protected]>
