The case for maven is quite different IMO because it is a development tool and does not or should not affect the runtime requirements of the artifacts built.
Gary On Tue, Jun 6, 2023, 03:28 Piotr P. Karwasz <piotr.karw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 5 Jun 2023 at 18:33, Matt Sicker <m...@musigma.org> wrote: > > Piotr raised an interesting question recently which deserves a dedicated > thread here: what should our strategy be for supporting various versions of > Java? Our current strategy is essentially Java 8 for 2.x and Java 11 for > 3.x, but with projects like Spring pushing Java 17 as a base requirement > and Java 21 (the latest LTS release) coming out in September, we may want > to devise a version support strategy. > > A similar discussion is going on the Maven mailing list: > https://lists.apache.org/thread/woz6pj6686rxmso47zm35vdxs5vt3bqb > > Piotr >
