I think dropping support when a JVM reaches the end of the commercial support is highly premature. As I said before, there are several examples of companies are still (partly) on Java 6 or just made the switch to Java 7. Dropping support as early as Oracle means in practice shutting users out.
On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 5:52 AM, sirinath <[email protected]> wrote: > I think it is best to drop support a JVM when it reaches the end of life > cycle or some time before reaching this date (when announcement is made). > You can publish this as a policy so there is not surprises. > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://apache-flink-incubator-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/DISCUSS-Bump-the-minimum-Java-requirement-to-Java-7-for-Flink-tp2243p2297.html > Sent from the Apache Flink (Incubator) Mailing List archive. mailing list > archive at Nabble.com. >
