+1, we will get Java10 really soon, so requiring at least Java8 seems reasonable.
2018-03-01 7:11 GMT+01:00 Romain Manni-Bucau <rmannibu...@gmail.com>: > +1, even big data libs like apache beam are java 8 based now so if big data > moved to j8, server techno should have moved already IMHO ;) > > Le 1 mars 2018 05:48, "Mark Struberg" <strub...@yahoo.de.invalid> a écrit > : > > > Hi folks! > > > > Our build, etc in theory still runs with Java6. > > As typical with ASF projects we make battle prooven projects for > > production. > > That means we take backward compatibility really serious. > > > > But I think it's finally time to up the game to Java8. > > To indicate this I suggest to move from currently 1.8.x to 1.9.x. > > > > Note that all the rest will still be backward compatible with older > > versions! > > We also might still ship 1.8.2, 1.8.3, etc as Java7 compatible version if > > there is any necessity. > > > > Any objections? > > > > LieGrue, > > strub > -- Christian Kaltepoth Blog: http://blog.kaltepoth.de/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/chkal GitHub: https://github.com/chkal
