On 6/1/19 4:13 pm, Emmanuel Lécharny wrote:
To be clear :
I'm not suggesting we support only Java 8, and no higher version, I'm
suggesting we keep Java 8 as our base version. That means we can - and
should - test our code base with more recent Java versions, but anything
we push *must* be Java 8 compatible.
I apologise if my comment was ambiguous. I understood your meaning and
was agreeing with it 100%.
My own perspective was that many production and development systems "out
there" are already likely to be at java 8 or higher. Generating code
from a more recent version of jdk shouldn't present problems, even when
the target jvm is only java 8. On the other hand, generating code that
uses new features only found in java 8 would be more problematic. I was
trying to make those thoughts explicit for anyone researching the next
release of apacheds and planning their upgrade path.
Sorry to have triggered your concern!
Brian
On 06/01/2019 05:51, Brian Burch wrote:
On 5/1/19 5:06 pm, Emmanuel Lécharny wrote:
Hi !
just wanted to be sure we all agree on the Java version we require
for the various projects. Currently, we require Java 7, even if it's
EOL since April 2015 (which means there is no official update for any
security issue, unless you pay for it)
Java 7 is still available through OpenJDK, and there are a few places
where you can get an updated version, but not for all the platforms:
Java 7 is typically not available in a recent and updated version on
Mac OSX.
So I suggest we drop Java 7 as the base version for our project, and
switch to Java 8 (which is also EOLed, ftr).
[ ] +1 : Only support Java 8 from now on
[ ] +/- 0 : I don't mind
[ ] -1 : Keep support for Java 7
Thanks !
+1 for purely selfish reasons, although mine will probably be fairly
typical. My main server that runs apacheds is still on ubuntu 16.04
LTS and so will require upgrading to 18.04 LTS fairly soon. All the
java services on this system currently use the "stock" ubuntu
repository java8 package, i.e.
openjdk version "1.8.0_191"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build
1.8.0_191-8u191-b12-0ubuntu0.16.04.1-b12)
OpenJDK Server VM (build 25.191-b12, mixed mode)
HTH,
Brian
p.s. all my new development projects are done (as far as possible)
under openjdk 11. I don't have any outstanding compatibility problems
that require downgrading, but I have a lot of work to do before I can
be sure...
