I think switching to java 8 is the right thing to do. It's actually getting hard to find java 7 installs for Windows to build the code with....
On Jul 26, 2017 9:57 AM, "Emmanuel Lécharny" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Le 26/07/2017 à 15:39, Shawn McKinney a écrit : > >> On Jul 26, 2017, at 5:38 AM, Emmanuel Lécharny <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> I think we might also want to move to Java 8 for teh API and ApacheDS? > bt that is another discussion to have. > >> > >> So I just want to state this fact : Studio *is* going to use Java 8 > starting from 2.0.0-M13. > >> > >> Does anyone has a problem with that ? > > Fortress went to 8 a while back and it’s the right thing to do for the > others as well. > > > > But perhaps worth asking the question. What’s the downside? > > I don't see any, beside teh fact that we have users still stuck with > older versions. One month ago I had a request from a user using Java 6, > and I had to retrieve the package version that was using this specific > Java version. > > OTOH, Java 7 has been EOLed more than 2 years ago, so... > > -- > Emmanuel Lecharny > > Symas.com > directory.apache.org > >
